Map of Robinson Crusoe's journey in Russian. Daniel Deforobinson Crusoe
Robinson family. - His escape from his parents' house
From early childhood I loved the sea more than anything in the world. I envied every sailor who set off on a long voyage. For hours at a time I stood on the seashore and without taking my eyes off the ships passing by.
My parents didn't like it very much. My father, an old, sick man, wanted me to become an important official, serve in the royal court and receive a large salary. But I dreamed of sea voyages. It seemed to me the greatest happiness to wander the seas and oceans.
My father guessed what was on my mind. One day he called me over and said angrily:
I know: you want to run away from your home. This is crazy. You must stay. If you stay, I will be a good father to you, but woe to you if you run away! - Here his voice trembled, and he quietly added:
Think about your sick mother... She cannot bear to be separated from you.
Tears sparkled in his eyes. He loved me and wanted the best for me.
I felt sorry for the old man, I firmly decided to stay in my parents’ house and not think about sea voyages anymore. But alas! - Several days passed, and nothing remained of my good intentions. I was again drawn to the sea shores. I began to dream of masts, waves, sails, seagulls, unknown countries, lights of lighthouses.
Two or three weeks after my conversation with my father, I finally decided to run away. Choosing a time when my mother was cheerful and calm, I approached her and respectfully said:
I am already eighteen years old, and these years are too late to study judgeship. Even if I entered the service somewhere, I would still run away to distant countries after a few years. I so want to see foreign lands, to visit both Africa and Asia! Even if I get attached to something, I still don’t have the patience to see it through to the end. I ask you, persuade my father to let me go to sea at least for a short time, for a test; If I don’t like the life of a sailor, I will return home and never go anywhere else. Let my father let me go voluntarily, otherwise I will be forced to leave home without his permission.
My mother got very angry with me and said:
I’m surprised how you can think about sea voyages after your conversation with your father! After all, your father demanded that you forget about foreign lands once and for all. And he understands better than you what business you should do. Of course, if you want to destroy yourself, leave even this minute, but you can be sure that your father and I will never give consent to your journey. And in vain you hoped that I would help you. No, I won't say a word to my father about your meaningless dreams. I don’t want that later, when life at sea brings you to poverty and suffering, you could reproach your mother for indulging you.
Then, many years later, I found out that my mother nevertheless conveyed to my father our entire conversation, from word to word. The father was saddened and said to her with a sigh:
I don’t understand what he needs? In his homeland, he could easily achieve success and happiness. We are not rich people, but we have some means. He can live with us without needing anything. If he goes on a journey, he will experience great hardships and regret that he did not listen to his father. No, I can't let him go to sea. Far from his homeland, he will be lonely, and if trouble happens to him, he will not have a friend who could console him. And then he will repent of his recklessness, but it will be too late!
And yet, after a few months, I fled from my home. It happened like this. One day I went to the city of Gull for several days. There I met a friend who was about to go to London on his father's ship. He began to persuade me to go with him, tempting me with the fact that travel on the ship would be free.
And so, without asking either father or mother, at an unkind hour! - On September 1, 1651, at the age of nineteen, I boarded a ship bound for London.
It was a bad act: I shamelessly abandoned my elderly parents, neglected their advice and violated my filial duty. And I very soon had to repent of what I had done.
Chapter 2
First adventures at sea
No sooner had our ship left the mouth of the Humber than a cold wind blew from the north. The sky was covered with clouds. A strong rocking motion began.
I had never been to sea before, and I felt bad. My head began to spin, my legs began to tremble, I felt nauseous, and I almost fell. Every time a big wave hit the ship, it seemed to me that we would drown right away. Every time a ship fell from a high crest of a wave, I was sure that it would never rise again.
A thousand times I swore that if I remained alive, if my foot set foot on solid ground again, I would immediately return home to my father and never in my entire life would set foot on the deck of a ship again.
These prudent thoughts lasted only as long as the storm raged.
But the wind died down, the excitement subsided, and I felt much better. Little by little I began to get used to the sea. True, I had not yet completely recovered from seasickness, but by the end of the day the weather had cleared up, the wind had completely died down, and a delightful evening had arrived.
I slept soundly all night. The next day the sky was just as clear. The calm sea with complete calm, all illuminated by the sun, presented such a beautiful picture as I had never seen before. There was no trace left of my seasickness. I immediately calmed down and felt happy. With surprise, I looked around the sea, which just yesterday seemed violent, cruel and menacing, but today it was so meek and gentle.
Yes, Robinson Crusoe was in the Vologda province, on the land of the present Komi Republic. Including in the village of Vizinga, which is located 87 kilometers south of Syktyvkar.
My interest in Vizinga is due to the fact that my male ancestors come from this village. At least my great-great-great-grandfather, born a year earlier than Pushkin, was already a resident of Vizinga.
My interest in Robinson Crusoe arose after a trip to the Guiana Highlands and the Orinoco River Delta (ill. 1). Let me remind you that Daniel Defoe located Robinson Island in the Atlantic Ocean not far from the place where the Orinoco flows into it, somewhat south of Trinidad. The island is fictional, although it is sometimes identified with the island of Tobago. However, it is more correct to consider Robinson Cruz Island to be Isla Mas a Tierra (“Closest Island to Earth”), located in the Pacific Ocean about 700 kilometers west of Valparaiso (Chile). For it was on this island (now officially called “Isla Robinson Crusoe”) that Robinson’s prototype, the Scot Alexander Selkirk, from whom Defoe wrote his hero, lived in complete solitude.
Ill. 1. Churun River of the lower Orinoco basin
The novel "Robinson Crusoe" (full title: "The life and amazing adventures of Robinson Crusoe, a sailor from York, who lived twenty-eight years all alone on an uninhabited island off the coast of America near the mouth of the Orinoco River, where he was thrown by a shipwreck during which the entire crew ship besides him died; with an account of his unexpected liberation by pirates, written by himself") - this novel was written by 58-year-old Daniel Defoe in 1719. Roman had a happy fate. The first edition sold out instantly. The second and third editions of the book were published almost immediately after the first, but they also could not meet the demand. Over the next 290 years, the book was continuously republished, becoming one of the most famous books in world literature. It is difficult to find a person now who does not know about the “amazing adventures of Robinson Crusoe.”
But what not everyone knows anymore is that “The Amazing Adventures...” has a sequel. It would be more correct to even talk not about a continuation, but about the second part of one book. Both parts were written by Defoe in one sitting and published by William Taylor one after the other in 1719. And many subsequent publishers considered Defoe's work as one book in two volumes: volume 1 - "Amazing Adventures ...", volume 2 - "Further Adventures ...". However, the second part of Robinson was much less popular with the public. And gradually “Further Adventures...” of Robinson Crusoe faded into the shadows.
The full title of the second part of Robinson Crusoe is: "The further adventures of Robinson Crusoe, constituting the second and last part of his life, and a fascinating account of his travels in three parts of the world, written by himself." In it, Robinson, having returned to England and become rich, soon begins to be burdened by the regularity of bourgeois life. He equips the ship and sets off again for his island. There he finds a fairly large colony of settlers (70 people). Robinson carries out socio-economic reforms on the island, resolves conflicts, transfers tools and technologies to the settlers (the entire first half of the book is devoted to a description of this) - and leaves to travel further. His path now lies in the Eastern Seas. Robinson skirts Africa at the Cape of Good Hope, gets into trouble in Madagascar and eventually settles (forced) in a large city on the shores of the Bay of Bengal (most likely in Calcutta). Six years later, during another trading operation, he ends up with a cargo of opium in China, where he loses his ship. However, he learns that a caravan of Moscow-Polish merchants has arrived in Beijing and decides to go with this caravan to their homeland by land. This is how Robinson crosses Siberia. He waits out the long winter (8 months) in Tobolsk. In June 1704, he left Tobolsk and headed to Arkhangelsk. Having crossed the border of Europe and Asia, Robinson finds himself in Solikamsk.
The further path in the novel is drawn dotted line. We present all passages in which there are references to terrain and distances (in the Russian translation by Zinaida Zhuravskaya, M.-L.: "Academia", 1935):
"...we discovered [...] a stream flowing into a river that was a tributary of the large Vishera River."
"... by six o'clock in the morning we had made about forty miles. Here we reached the Russian village of Kermazinskoye."
“Two hours before dark we hit the road again and drove until eight o’clock in the morning... At seven o’clock we crossed the small river Kirsha and then arrived in the large Russian city of Ozoma.”
“Five days later we arrived in Vestima on the Vychegda River, which flows into the Dvina, and thus happily approached the end of our land journey, for the Vychegda River is navigable... From Vestima we arrived on the third of July to Yarensk, where we hired two large barges for our goods and one for themselves, set sail on July 7th and arrived safely in Arkhangelsk on the 18th."
So, Robinson, according to the Russian translation, gets from Solikamsk to Yarensk (a village on the right bank of the Vychegda River, about 250 kilometers below Syktyvkar), from where he happily rafts to Arkhangelsk - first along the Vychegda until its confluence with the Northern Dvina, and then along the Dvina itself .
But from Solikamsk to Yarensk it is only 500 kilometers in a straight line. How exactly did Robinson go this route? Let's try to answer this question.
Let us repeat once again all the toponyms and hydronyms in the order they follow along Robinson’s route after Solikamsk: a tributary of the Vishera River - the village of Kermazinskoye - the Kirsha River - the city of Ozomy - the village of Vestima (on the Vychegda River) - the village of Yarensk.
Of the above, only the Vishera River and the village of Yarensk do not raise any questions at first glance. There are questions about the rest of the names right away.
Namely: neither Kermazinskoye, nor Kirsha, nor Ozomy, nor Vestim have been identified until now. Of course, there is a temptation to compare the “Kirsha River” with the Bolshoy Kirs River (flowing through the city of Kirs, Kirov Region), Ozomy with the village of Sozimsky in the Kirov Region, and Vestima with Ust-Vym on Vychegda - but we will not do this. Why will become clear from what follows.
To restore Robinson’s exact route along Komi land, we propose a methodology based on the following two premises:
1. “The Further Adventures of Robinson Crusoe...” is a work of fiction. This means that some of the names in it may be obviously fictitious (or taken arbitrarily by the author), although they sound in the Russian manner to create the effect of authenticity.
2. Daniel Defoe was not a traveler himself. The country farthest from England that he visited was Spain. Accordingly, he did not see either the Orinoco Delta or Siberia. This means that he laid out the route for Robinson from Solikamsk to Arkhangelsk using maps - those that he could have at his disposal.
Let us remember that the novel was written in 1719. The most popular map of the Russian North at that time was the map of Sigismund Herberstein (Siegmund Freiherr von Herberstein), compiled by the envoy of the Holy Roman Empire back in 1546. But the detail of this map for the purposes of the novel was clearly insufficient: in the territory of interest to us, only one settlement is indicated on it - Veliky Ustyug (in the original: VSTING, "Ust-Ing"). So this possible source is eliminated.
For the same reasons, the toponymic source for Defoe could not be the maps of either Anthony Jenkinson (Jenkinson, 1562), or William Borrow (Borowgh, 1570), or Hessel Gerritsz (Gerritsz, 1613). The travel map of Izbrant Ides and Adam Brand, as well as their notes describing the journey of the Moscow embassy to China in 1692-95 (Ysbrants Ides, Adam Brand, published separately in 1698) also do not help answer the question about the origin of the place names that interest us in Defoe’s novel . The fairly detailed map of the Swede Eric Palmquist (1673) was classified as “top secret” and could not have been accessible to the Englishman Daniel Defoe. Thus, what remains is the map of Muscovy by Guillaume Delisle from his recently published Atlas of the World (1706, ill. 2) - or its replica.
Ill. 2. North-eastern sheet of "Map of Muscovy" by Guillaume de l'Isle, 1706 edition
On the map of Guillaume Delisle (Carte de Moscovie, Guillaume de l'Isle), clearly dating back to Godunov’s Big Drawing (already lost by that time), the area south of the Vychegda River is worked out in sufficient detail (ill. 3).
Ill. 3. The region between Solikamsk and Veliky Ustyug on the map of Delisle
But before we move on to identifying settlements from Defoe’s novel with Delisle’s map, let’s clarify the spelling of the toponyms that interest us. For these purposes, we will use the first edition of Taylor's edition of the second part of Robinson (W. Taylor), published in 1719. In subsequent editions, especially after Miller's edition of 1801 (G. Miller), the spelling of settlements underwent some distortions (for example, Veussima turned into Veuslima, Ozomya into Ozomoys, and so on) - unimportant for the reader, but important for our purposes. So, in the original the names we are interested in are written as follows:
Kirmazinskoy (Kermazinskoe),
Kirtza (Kirsha),
Ozomya (Ozomy),
Veussima (according to Zhuravskaya - Vestima),
Lawrenskoy (according to Zhuravskaya - Yarensk).
Now let's look at Delisle's map (Fig. 4).
Ill. 4. The middle course of the Vychegda River on the map of Delisle. The city of Lalscoi (Lalsk) is marked incorrectly, it should be located south of Ulpisko (Ilyinsko-Podomsky)
The first thing we see on it is the marked village of Larenscoi on the Vychegda River (which Defoe turned into Lawrenskoy). Please note that this is not Yarensk at all (as it appears in the Russian translation). If only because Yarensk is also on the map of Delisle and is designated as Jerenscoi Gorodek. It is in this spelling that Yarensk appears in the Vychegda-Vymskaya (Misailo-Eutikhievskaya) chronicle (record for 1384): “Yerensky Gorotok” (so, with a “t”). The mistake with Yarensk is one of the very few mistakes made by the wonderful translator Zinaida Zhuravskaya. In addition, Zinaida Nikolaevna (at that time Zhuravskaya-Portugalova) had already been living outside of Russia for 15 years when the novel was published and could hardly take part in proofreading the proofs.
So, Larenscoi from Delisle’s map is not Yarensk, as it is erroneously stated in the Russian translation of the novel. Judging by Delisle's map, his Larenscoi is located on the site of the current Urdoma (Palamysh) pier on Vychegda. Near Larenscoi, upstream the Vychegda, the village of Voysema is indicated on the map of Delisle. In our humble opinion, this is Veussima from Defoe's novel.
To the east of Voysema, the village of Kirsa is indicated on the map near Delilia. And this is also not Kirs, Kirov region, which we mentioned above.
Kirmazinskoy and Ozomya are missing from the Delisle map. This means that even if they actually existed at that time, Defoe still had no way of knowing about their existence. Therefore, we are inclined to classify these two toponyms as fictitious.
Thus, Robinson’s route through Komi land was as follows. He left Solikamsk, drove south of Kirsa (according to the Delisle map), near the village of Voysema he reached the Vychegda River and sailed to Arkhangelsk on a barge from the village of Larenscoi (in the area of the current Urdoma pier).
Let's look at Delisle's map again. Robinson could carry out the indicated route in only one way: moving along the Old Siberian Highway, indicated on the map of Delisle. The road went from Solikamsk to Veliky Ustyug and passed through the present-day Uzhga (Iam Usga near Delisle). However, then, following the topology of the area, the path in reality deviated from how it was indicated on the Delisle map. After Uzhga, following the valley of the Sysola River, the tract first went north-northwest. It passed through the village of Pyeldino (at Delisle it turned into Pyoldina Volost; in the Notes of Adam Brand - Yam-Pioldier, see entry dated January 9, 1695), then through Vizinga. In Vising, the tract finally broke away from the valley of the Sysola River and turned west, going to the Ilyinsko-Podomsky pit, which had stood since the time of Stephen of Perm on the Viled River, the left tributary of the Vychegda (Ulpisko Relais, also known as Iam Spas at Delisle, ill. 5) .
Ill. 5. Robinson Crusoe's route between Uzhga and the Vychegda River
The huge forest between the Sysola (Uzhga) River and the Viled River (Ilyinsko-Podomskoye) received a special comment from the map compiler - it is possible that with the light hand of Adam Brand (see his Notes on a trip to China, entry dated March 30, 1692. Ill. 6 ):
"Forest longue de 160 lieues habitee par les Ziranni. Ces peuples ont une langue particuliere et des manieres fort singulieres. Ils etoient cy devant Idolatres ils sont aujourd"hui Chretiens, et Tributaires du Czar."
("A forest 160 leagues long, inhabited by the Zyryans. This people has its own language and customs unlike any other. Until recently they were idolaters, now they are Christians and are tributaries of the King." - author's translation. Some words in the inscription are in Old French writing.)
Ill. 6."Zyryan Forest" on the map of Delisle
At Ulpisko, according to Defoe, Robinson turned right onto Voysema. The question arises: why didn’t he go further to Veliky Ustyug? We find the answer to this question in the text of the novel. Robinson had reasons to avoid big cities. We read: "... a Siberian servant, who knew the area perfectly, led us along circuitous roads, bypassing the main cities and villages on the large highway [...] since the Muscovite garrisons located there search travelers very carefully."
Now we know which settlements from Delisle’s map Daniel Defoe had in mind when he wrote the second part of Robinson’s travels. It remains to understand what Delisle himself had in mind when making his map. Let us present our version of the correspondences of some settlements (Fig. 7).
Along the Old Siberian Highway:
Iam Usga is Uzhga,
Ulpisko - Ilyinsko-Podomskaya Yamskaya station.
Ill. 7. Robinson Crusoe's route through the Komi Republic on a modern topographic map
Now let's walk downstream of the Vychegda:
Oussizoli - Ustsysolsk (now Syktyvkar),
Vesto Vuin - Ust-Vym,
Jerenscoi Gorodek - Yarensk (ill. 8),
Noova Selso - New Village (near Yarensk),
Voysema (the place where Robinson went to Vychegda) - the village of Vozhem ( Vozhe-Ma, Holy Mountain),
Sosom Crasnoi - Shonoma,
Larenscoi - a settlement located somewhere in the area of the current Urdoma pier,
Ourdema - Urdoma (now located in another place, on the railway).
Ill. 8. Toponyms of the lower reaches of the Vychegda on the map of Delisle
To complete the picture, let us designate the route of Robinson's travels across Siberia (ill. 9) - from the great Yellow River ("Yellow River") to the great Vychegda River (original name - Ezhva, "Yellow River").
Ill. 9. The Siberian section of Robinson Crusoe's journey indicated on Delisle's map
To begin with, a few words about another river, which Robinson himself did not see, but which he knows about and which he mentions in his notes. This is the Yamour River (at Delisle: Amour) - r. Amur. Associated with it is the following interesting passage from Robinson (in this case, Defoe himself) regarding his vision of the structure of this part of the planet (this passage is missing in the Russian edition of the novel):
"These rivers running all northward, as well as all the other rivers I am yet to speak of, made it evident that the northern ocean bounds the land also on that side; so that it does not seem rational in the least to think that the land can extend itself to join with America on that side, or that there is not a communication between the northern and the eastern ocean; but of this I shall say no more; it was my observation at that time, and therefore I take notice of it's in this place."
("These rivers [Amur and the "great river" Tartarus - approx. transl.], as well as the other rivers that I have spoken about so far, all flow to the North, which clearly shows that the Northern Ocean also washes the continent and in this part of it. So there is not the slightest reason to believe that the land can extend on this side so far as to connect with America, or that there is no passage between the Northern and Eastern Oceans. To this I can add nothing more, since it only my personal opinion that I had at that time; for this reason alone I considered it necessary to mention it here." - author’s translation.)
Let us remember that the Bering Strait was not yet open at the time the novel was published and the question of the connection between Asia and America remained open.
And now Robinson’s actual route from Beijing to Tobolsk:
1. Beijing.
2. The city of Naun (at Delisle: Naun, at Zhuravskaya: Non). This is the modern Chinese city of Qiqihar. On the map of Delisle we find a hint about this: “Naun ou Xixigan”.
3. The city of Argun (near Delisle: Argun) - the village of Argun. During the time of Delisle - Argun fort.
4. City Nertzinskay (near Delisle: Nerezin) - Nerchinsk.
5. The village of Plothus (near Delisle: Plathus, near Zhuravskaya: Rafts). We believe that this is nothing other than Chita (ill. 10). Although at the time of writing "Robinson" the settlement was already called "Chitinsky fort" (or "settlement" - see Remezov's "Drawing Book of Siberia" of 1701), but on the map of Delisle, obviously, the name of the predecessor of the fort - the village of Plotbishche, mentioned by Fedor - was still preserved Golovin in a letter to the Nerchinsk governor in 1687, as well as Izbrant Ides in his Notes (entry dated May 15, 1693).
6. The city of Jarawena (near Delisle: Jaravana, near Zhuravskaya: Yaravena) - by all indications, this is the current village of Shiringa. This village is located on the eastern shore of Small Eravnoe Lake, where the Eravninsky fort stood for some time (set there in 1675 by Bogdan Nesvidaev and came to naught by the end of the 18th century).
7. River Udda (near Delisle: Uda) - r. Oops.
8. The city of Adinskoy (at Delisle: Udinscoi) - Ulan-Ude, until 1934 called Verkhneudinsk.
9. River and city Janezay (near Delisle: Jenisea) - r. Yenisei and the city of Yeniseisk.
10. City of Tobolski (near Delisle: Tobolsk) - Tobolsk. Here Robinson met the exiled Prince Vasily Vasilyevich Golitsyn, the all-powerful favorite of Princess Sophia. In reality, Golitsyn was not in Tobolsk, but, finding himself in disgrace, he was exiled first to Kargopol, from there to Yarensk (where he stayed for about a year, 1689-90), then to Pustozersk, and only then (the regime was softened) to Pinega.
Ill. 10. The Far Eastern part of Robinson Crusoe's journey, between Argun and Udinsk
Let's summarize our research. So, in June 1704, Robinson Crusoe traveled across the Komi land from Solikamsk - through Uzhga and Ilyinskoye - to the village of Vozhem on Vychegda (below present-day Yarensk), from where he drove along the coast to the village of Larenscoi (near present-day Urdoma), where he hired a barge. On the road, between Uzhga and Ilyinsky, Robinson passed through the village of Vizinga (ill. 11), where at that time (summer 1704), according to the First Revision Tale (Petrine census), the Mityushevs were already hunting a bear, heating a bathhouse, plowing the land and wrote isosyllabic poetry in the style of the then fashionable Simeon of Polotsk.
Ill. eleven. The village of Vizinga as seen from space
It remains to add that 21 years after Robinson Crusoe visited Visinga, Vitus Bering stopped there and took a steam bath, heading to discover the mythical strait between Asia and America, the existence of which Daniel Defoe reported in his novel six years earlier.
Whether at that time Bering was already familiar with Daniel Defoe’s book, I don’t know. But in any case, when setting off in 1733 on the 2nd (and for him, the last) Kamchatka expedition, Bering had with him, among the most necessary materials for the expedition, a volume of adventures of the “sailor from York” (see “Painting with the announcement prices from the Academy of Sciences to Kamchatka for books, instruments and other materials issued, 1733", RGADA, f. 248 "The Senate and its institutions", op. 12, book 664, l. 281).
Ill. 12. The beginning of the list of books issued by the Academy of Sciences to Bering on his 2nd Kamchatka Expedition in 1733 (“Painting announcing the price from the Academy of Sciences to Kamchatka for books, instruments and other materials issued.”)
Ill. 13. The book “Robinson Crusoe” (“The Life and Cases of Robinson Crusoe”) in the list of materials provided by the Academy of Sciences in 1733 to Bering on his 2nd Kamchatka expedition
Exactly 215 years after Robinson, on the same road from Solikamsk to Ilyinskoye and further to Lalsk, in the dashing year of 1919, a squadron of the red Latvian ataman Azin passed through Vizinga. And the red horseman of this squadron, Nikolai Anufriev, put my grandmother’s 17-year-old sister, Aunt Lelya, on the croup of his horse, and took her to a bright future (to Lalsk, then to Orekhovo-Zuevo). But that is another story .
Moscow, May 2010
The sequel is not very well known to the reader and has a small number of publications in our country. Well, the sequel can't end with luck, when he wins his name is different...
The work is divided into two independent parts. The first is a direct continuation of that famous novel. The story is about how the already aged and widowed Robinson Crusoe, together with his nephew and faithful servant Friday, set sail for India, and at the same time decides to visit the very island where an entire colony of Spaniards and exiled Englishmen remained, which were discussed in the finale of the predecessor and whose fate was ultimately unknown. Here the answer is given to the question of what happened on the island in the 9 years after the first inhabitant, Robinson, set sail. This part is a must read. Because it is very interesting and sometimes exciting, because events take place on an even greater scale and tension than in the first part. Upon visiting the island, one very sad event occurs, which actually closes the theme of Robinsonade. The author parts with the theme of the island, and forever - he warns the reader about this in advance in the text.
The second part is a journey through Africa (more precisely Madagascar) and Asia, Robinson. In principle, only the first pages are of interest, where there is a description of the “right” genocide on the part of the sailors in relation to the natives and the conflict between Robinson condemning this on this basis with the crew members who organized the beating, and his departure from the crew and the beginning of life in India . What follows is a very boring description of all sorts of uninteresting events that you can fall asleep over, to be honest.
Here, on the part of the author, there are also ugly thoughts. In particular, through the eyes of his hero, Defoe looks down on China, its culture and people, and in general the chauvinistic motives that were becoming more and more strengthened in European society. no no, yes they slip that they cannot paint a work whose plot and mental component have already disappeared as such.
Rating: 8
Despite the preserved signature style of the narrator, combining courtly idle talk and furious reasoning, the continuation of the adventures of Robinson Crusoe turned out to be much weaker precisely because Robinson is not here. An ode to the all-conquering Protestant spirit, capable of making a nuclear reactor out of a couple of pieces of wood, half a dozen bullets and string, subjugating savages, nature, weather, mastering, using and thanking Our Lord, it was replaced by the usual colonialist grumbling of an English traveler/trader/spy. The sailors are traitors and scoundrels, the Chinese are dirty infidels, the Muscovites are lazy pseudo-Christians, but in fact they are the same pagans. Interference in someone else's faith and internal affairs is welcomed because it is pleasing to God and the white man's conscience. If we omit the first part, which is a direct continuation of the original Robinsonade (it tells what happened on the island after Crusoe’s departure), then almost all the time the hero describes clashes with “savages” - Indians, blacks of Madagascar, Bengals, Tatars, and in the end it’s unclear who . It's all pretty boring, unoriginal and pointless.
Rating: 6
I have long wanted to read the second part of Robinsoniad. I read it... Well, in general, nothing good. In his old age, 61 to be exact, Robinson dreams of returning to the island. His wife is pregnant and wants to go with him, but he refuses to take her. When she dies, he abandons all the children and goes on a journey. The island, then China, then Russia (with the last two taking up less than a third of the story). Having become indignant with everyone, Robinson returns.
What do you remember? Nothing.
How is it similar to Robinsoniad? Nothing.
Rating: 5
After the first and most famous first novel that I loved, I took on this one with interest and understandable expectations. Not to say that these expectations were not met, but my feelings from the novel were slightly lower than from the previous one. Something was missing—subtly, but missing. To begin with, the novel clearly falls into two parts. The first part, in general, talks in detail about what was already mentioned in the first book, namely the return to the island, which once became a prison, and now a “colony” of Robinson Crusoe. This story is quite detailed - here you have the events preceding the trip to the island, and the journey itself, to my honor, is full of events, mainly meetings with ships in distress - and this gives an idea of what sea travel was like in those days, barely Whether it's Russian roulette, the constant danger of disaster, hunger, collision with the enemy or crash. Here is a description of how things were for the Spaniards and English who remained on the island - the story is quite dynamic, full of adventures and skirmishes, both among themselves and with the cannibalistic natives. And this is where it becomes noticeable that the novel is somehow less gripping, not the same as the first. It seems to me that all this comes out due to the fact that the novel is, yes, full of events, but at the same time they are described so dryly, so monotonously that to some extent they seem of the same type. And in the first book there was more philosophy and experiences of the hero, creating such an emotional volume, filling each event with its own coloring, and what can we say, making you feel stronger, worry and empathize more strongly. And there are a lot of adventures here, but you can’t worry as much as you did about Robinson himself in the first book, alas. And this is where the novel loses. Only the conversion of Indian wives to Christianity was described in detail, but here I see rather the influence of the time and the mood of that era, so such things are taught in more detail, and therefore are more important for the author than, for example, the clash of “colonists” with cannibals. It’s also funny that in the clashes between the Spaniards and the British, it is the British, that is, the author’s fellow tribesmen, who appear as the villains. It's funny.
But no matter how interesting it was to return with Robinson to his island, I was more interested in the second part of the novel, which I would call “a trip around the world.” Yes, it was also full of adventures and also so dry, almost diary-like, but here this “diary-ness” goes more towards realism (really a diary). Yes, it probably couldn’t have been otherwise - otherwise the novel would have dragged on. It was also interesting in contrast to the first part. Still, the island and the waters closest to it have exhausted themselves, the set of dangers and adventures has been exhausted (and this added to the feeling of monotony at the beginning of the novel). And here are new parts of the world, which means new adventures, new dangers and new impressions conveyed by the narrator. Yes, there is also no layer of philosophy and feelings that were in the first book, but there were plenty of adventures and impressions. The situation of being abandoned by his people on the other side of the world was especially curious. And the position of the pirate in the eyes of the authorities (and unexpected and involuntary) was also very, very interesting and original. And of course, traveling through Siberia is something that could not help but attract my attention. But here the well-known feeling of the English mentality of that time also manifested itself; what seemed strange, but for the author himself it seemed quite natural. Again there was a feeling that Robinson Crusoe was very strange. I already paid less attention to the attitude towards people, having felt this in the first volume - apparently the policy of slavery leaves an imprint on human nature. But here the English (or rather European) ego flashed once again - a disdainful attitude towards other, non-European peoples. Both the Chinese are barbarians for him, and the Russians are barbarians. Moreover, this is both surprising and at the same time, quite consistent with the modern world situation, the attitude of England towards Russians - for example, Russian “natives” turn out to be worse in his eyes than American natives (those same cannibals) or any others. This is said almost directly. And how else can one explain the contrast between the events in Madagascar - a very striking moment in which, due to the violence of a sailor against a local girl, a wild massacre occurs, carried out by the sailor’s comrades; the incident is very emotional, it seems the most emotional and truly disturbing the soul, and it is natural that this event outraged and aroused the indignation of the main character, which was the reason for his “exile” to the shore. But at the same time, in a Siberian village, our hero, without hesitation, attacks (read: desecrates) a wooden idol, and even at the moment of a festive sacrifice, thereby openly provoking a conflict. What is this? He even treated cannibals more cautiously, if not more democratically. In general, the “Siberian part” of the novel turned out to be ambiguous. Ambiguous in terms of the hero’s attitude towards Russia. This is the country of Tatary, inhabited by people who consider themselves Christians, but are not really Christians (in contrast, the attitude towards a Christian of other faiths on the island was more kind - and this is between a Catholic and a Protestant), a crowd of slaves (and this says a man who turned the only living soul he met and considered a kindred friend into a servant) ruled by a mediocre tsar who ingloriously lost obviously winning battles (we are talking, if I’m not mistaken, about Peter I). The judgment is quite dismissive and causes indignation in me personally (how could it be otherwise?). But at the same time, detailed winter conversations with the exiled minister evoke a feeling of respect - in him, in this minister, prudence and wisdom are manifested - the same ones that appeared in the main character only after a long life full of adventures and hardships. Although the position of the exile in this case also inserts a thin hairpin into the state, in which such wonderful people found themselves in the position of being undesirable to the authorities. By the way, in my opinion, both of these were the reasons that in Soviet times the novel was practically not published and, therefore, is little known among us. It’s not very pleasant to hear that the population of Tsarist Russia, although slaves, are barbarians, and the person who has earned the respect of the protagonist, although an exile, is a royal nobleman, and also a patriot of the Tsar and the Fatherland, ready to return and serve at the first call. But whatever you say, the “Siberian part” of the novel is not devoid of either interesting (and sometimes fair) observations or adventures. And it just so happened that a trip to Russia became the last adventure of a man whose name, it seems, is known to everyone, and has long become a household name. And to tell the truth, it was sad, very sad to part with him and realize that Robinson Crusoe’s life had finally come to a quiet and calm end. Whatever you say, it is impossible not to love and get used to this inexorable adventurer who has experienced so many hardships and trials.
BINARY LESSON OF LITERATURE AND GEOGRAPHY IN 6TH GRADE
ON THE TOPIC: “TRAVEL TO ROBINSON ISLAND”
Lesson objectives:
Identify the quality and level of mastery of the knowledge and skills acquired during the study
Romana D. Defoe “The Life and Amazing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe” (literature);
Check the quality of knowledge on the topics “Geographical coordinates of points”, “Atmosphere”
(geography)
Promote speech development;
Develop spatial thinking;
Develop communication skills when working in groups;
To develop cognitive interest and geographical thinking of students;
Contribute to the education of geographical culture and aesthetic perception
Geographical objects through literary works.
Equipment: map of Robinson Island, crossword puzzle, outline maps, tables, pictures of objects, presentation “Robinson Island”
The book pays generously for the love of it.
The book teaches even when you don't expect it, and,
Maybe you don't want to.
The power of a book is enormous.
N.P. Smirnov-Sokolsky.
DURING THE CLASSES
- Motivation
Geography teacher ( UG). Guys, many of you, like us, love to travel.
But you can travel in different ways.
Literature teacher (UL)The poet A.T. Tvardovsky once wrote:
There are two categories of travel.
One set off into the distance,
Another sit in your place,
Flip back through the calendar.
Many have read the novel “The Life and Amazing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe,” about a sailor from York forced to spend 28 years on a desert island after a shipwreck. The novel was published in 1719, i.e. Almost 300 years later, it still attracts readers. What is the secret of his popularity?
UG. While reading Daniel Defoe's wonderful novel Robinson Crusoe, you probably wondered whether Robinson really existed, and if so, where his island was located. Robinson is not fiction. Daniel Defoe's work is based on a true fact. Only the hero's surname was changed in the book, and the author moved the island itself to the Atlantic Ocean.
UL. We invite you to go on a trip to Robinson Island with us. First, let's find out the name of a real islander, a Scotsman by nationality, who spent 4 years on the island.
- Updating of reference knowledge
1 STOP. Solving a crossword puzzle in teams. (keyword Selkirk)
UL. The real Robinson's name was Alexander Selkirk, a Scotsman by nationality, the seventh son of a shoemaker from the village of Lower Largo, located near Edinburgh. Selkirk spent 4 years and 4 months on Mas a Tierra, a windswept island in the Juan Fernandez archipelago, 667 km off the coast of Chile. He turned out to be the only human being on the island. Unlike the literary work, Selkirk was not a shipwrecked person. In 1704, his ship approached an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean to replenish its supply of drinking water. Selkirk rebelled against his captain, accusing him of dooming the sailors to death in their haste to continue sailing again: the ship was in poor condition and needed urgent and serious repairs. Selkirk declared that he would rather remain on the island than go aboard again.
When the 28-year-old rebel realized it, it was already too late: the ship had sailed. Which, by the way, saved his life. He was right: the ship was caught in a storm off the coast of Peru and sank with almost the entire crew. Selkirk probably didn’t believe it himself when the sails of his ship disappeared over the horizon. Among the things left to him were some articles of clothing, a knife, an axe, a gun, navigational instruments, a bowler hat, tobacco and a Bible.
UG. Narration and demonstration of geographical objects by a geography teacher
On September 1, 1651, Robinson Crusoe sails from Hull (a city at the mouth of the Humber River) to London, tempted by free passage. On the 6th day, a shipwreck occurred near the city of Yarmouth, but the sailors were saved by a ship passing nearby.
In London, he meets the captain of a ship preparing to go to Guinea, and decides to sail with them - fortunately, it will not cost him anything, he will be the captain’s “companion and friend.”
It was an unsuccessful expedition: their ship between the Canary Islands and the African mainland is captured by a Turkish pirate from Sale (a seaport on the Atlantic coast owned by the Moors, near the city of Rabat).
How many years was Robinson Crusoe held captive by the Moorish Sultan? (2 years)
After 2 years, Robinson escapes from Sale, he decides to get to the mouth of the Senegal River. He is soon picked up by a ship bound for Brazil.
2 STOP. Drawing on a contour map of Robinson Crusoe's journey
In Brazil, Crusoe settles in a small town near the large port city of San Salvador (Place this city at 13˚ S on the outline map. and 38˚z. d.), it was from here that the trip for blacks to Guinea began.
This is how Robinson Crusoe describes his journey: “We headed north along the coast of Brazil and reached Cape St. Augustine (now renamed Cabo Branco)7˚S 35°W put on the contour map.From the cape we headed for the island of Fernando de Noronha (4˚S 32˚ west map), the island remained on our right hand.
Having reached 7˚22′N. we were overtaken by a hurricane, which carried us to approximately 11˚N latitude. When we reached 12 degrees north latitude a storm began (put this point on the contour map), but carried to the far west.
Robinson Crusoe found himself on an island located between 10 latitudes. 62 W.Determine what kind of island it is and put it on the map. (Trinidad Island)
UL. So, we are on Robinson Island. What feelings does R. Crusoe experience when he finds himself on the island? Imagine yourself in Robinson's place. The real “Robinson” Alexander Selkirk, after four years on the island, could hardly speak. Why? And Robinson, from the very first days, analyzed what happened to him, and this helped him in the future.
The first entry in the diary of R. Crusoe: EVIL - GOOD.
3 STOP. COMPLETING THE TABLE “EVIL GOOD”.Afterwards, the teams read out the results of their work with argumentation.
UG. As we see, there are no hopeless situations. And, as you noted, Robinson was lucky with the climate on the island.
4 STOP. Climatic features of the island
In what climate zone is it located?(Subequatorial)Describe this climate zone.
(The climate is subequatorial, hot and humid; there are two seasons: dry (from January to May) and rainy. Average monthly temperature 25-27 ° C, precipitation from 1200 mm to 3000 mm per year)
5 STOP. Fauna and flora of the island
Describe the flora and fauna of the island, using the text of the novel.
I made another discovery: the vegetation on the island was wild,
There was not a single piece of cultivated land to be seen anywhere! This means that people here and in
it really wasn't!
There also seemed to be no predatory animals here, at least I didn’t
I noticed none. But there were a lot of birds, all of some kind
breeds unknown to me, so later, when I happened to shoot
bird, I could never determine by its appearance whether its meat was suitable for food or
No.
Coming down the hill, I shot one bird, a very large one: it was sitting
on a tree at the edge of the forest.
I think this was the first shot heard in these wild places. Not
I managed to shoot when a cloud of birds soared over the forest. Each one screamed at
in its own way, but none of these cries were like the cries of birds I knew.
The bird I killed resembled our European hawk and coloration
feathers, and the shape of the beak. Only her claws were much shorter. meat her
it tasted like carrion and I couldn’t eat it.
except for birds and some two animals, like ours
a hare that jumped out of the forest at the sound of my shot, no living creatures
I haven't seen it here.
UL . Yes, R. Crusoe was lucky with natural conditions. But could he survive on the island if he himself did not make any efforts? What character traits helped him in this?
6 STOP. Drawing up a characterization plan for Robinson Crusoe.(When drawing up a plan, students comment on each point with examples from the text)
7 STOP. Role-playing game “Extreme situation”.
UG. Imagine that you find yourself on a desert island and you have these items.How can they be used?
Items: crackers, barley, axe, sail, ropes, paper with ink.
UL . Robinson Crusoe fell in love with his island and life on it: “I was quite happy, if only complete happiness is possible in the sublunary world.” All this became possible thanks to the fact that Robinson worked every day. What professions did R. Crusoe master on the island?
8 STOP. Which team will name the most professions, supporting them with examples from the text.
UL . Were there moments in Crusoe's life when he felt the tragedy of his situation especially acutely? How did he manage to overcome this?
UG. Sometimes every person wants to be in a place where no one and nothing can stop him from relaxing. A trip to Robinson Crusoe Island is precisely for such tourists, satiated with “civilized” holidays.
Currently, any tourist who visits Robinson Crusoe Island can try to live almost the same life as the Scot Alexander Selkirk. This is not a journey through the “places of military glory” of a hermit sailor or a theatrical performance on the theme “The Life of Robinson Crusoe.” The adventure will begin when you want it. There is a small hotel with all amenities (in case you really love the benefits of civilization), and a restaurant. Regular telephone and telegraph communications have been established with Santiago. By telex you can contact almost any city in the country.
But if you want to feel like the “last hero,” then you can live in a special house on the beach or spend the night in a cave, the same as Robinson Crusoe’s grotto. There are also two huts specially equipped for tourists. There is everything you need for living here, there is a fireplace. The traveler must prepare his own food - the locals will supply you with vegetables, fruits, and bread, and lobsters and fish are found in abundance in the sea.
Here every tourist will find something to suit his taste. Those who like unobtrusive educational tourism can explore the local attractions:
- Alexander Selkirk's Cave
- A site in the wilds from which the Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk (the prototype of Robinson Crusoe) looked out for some rescue ship. It is located at an altitude of 550 m above sea level. There is a memorial plaque on it in honor of Robinson. A few months ago, Scottish sailors who visited the island erected a small monument to their fellow countryman in the neighborhood.
- Spanish Fort Santa Barbara, which served in 1749 to repel pirate attacks. (By the way, evidence that pirates once liked the secluded archipelago is that treasures and pirate household items are still often found there)
- The place where, during the First World War in 1915, the German battleship Dresden was sunk by the English ships Orama, Glasgow and Kent.
- Various military relics: Spanish cannons, cannonballs, Chilean naval regalia of the war with Peru in 1879.
- Summing up the game. Grading.
- Homework.
- Literature: mini-essay “If I were on Robinson Island”;
- By geography:
Teacher of Russian language and literature at Novomayachkovskaya secondary school of 1-2 levels Svetlana Nikolaevna Nekrasova;
Geography teacher Ustimenko Irina Sergeevna.
New from last year - the only addition to the acclaimed game
The first thing that catches your eye is the unusual design of the box in the form of a small, worn antique book. The authors and the promising number 1 are listed on the spine (which means we can hope that there will be several additions).
This time you arrive on the island purposefully. Young scientist Charles Darwin and his team head to the shores of Discovery Island in search of unknown animals and plants.
The plot of the game is based on real events, the crew of the Beagle actually made a five-year trip around the world. At the end of this journey, Charles Darwin proposed the Theory of Evolution, which forever changed the way mankind looked at the creation of the world.
The game offers 6 scenarios connected by sequential events. Each scenario earns points, which then carry over to the next scenario.
To complete the entire game, you must play all 6 scenarios at once. Only at the very end will it become clear what discoveries Charles Darwin will make with your help.
If it is not possible to play out all the scenarios at once, the authors suggest recording the results using photos or recording all the results.
This is not a standalone game, the base version is required to play
Age: from 10 years;
Game duration: 1-1.5 hours;
Number of players: 1-4;
Manufacturer: "Hobby world";
Approximate cost: 990 rubles.
The game package includes: Ship Sheet, Darwin's Cabin Sheet, 3 Scenario Sheets, Reference Sheet, 7 Tropical Plant Cards, 5 Disease Cards, 6 Invention Cards, 9 Coast Cards, 3 Sea Adventure Cards, 20 Event Cards, 5 Crew Cards, Darwin Sheet, Missionary Sheet, Darwin token, ship token, game die, 6 barrel tokens, 4 cell tokens, 3 island tokens, 6 ship parts, 6 red number tokens, 16 obstacle tokens, 3 collection box tokens, 5 large tree tokens, 3 defense tokens, 3 Darwin tokens, 2 oar tokens, 1 change of course token, 6 secret tokens, 1 basket token, 1 bag token, game rules.
In our review we will present a complete picture of the game, without going into small details for ease of perception. Read the rules included with the game for step-by-step steps.
Rules of the board game “The Voyage of the Beagle” / Robinson Сrusoe: Voyage of the Beagle» .
Players select characters at random. For any number of participants in the game must be present Charles Darwin. The whole story revolves around him.
In this version, the savage assistants Friday and the Dog do not participate; their role is replaced by sailors from the Beagle ship: Cabin Boy, Parrot, Lookout, Horse, Ship's Doctor. Each is valuable in their work, there are many benefits from them, and minimal expenses - no game effects affect them (they don’t need to eat, don’t need a roof when spending the night, etc.).
The basic rules remain the same, all changes and deviations are spelled out in the scenarios.
Scenario 1.
The Beagle delivered your crew to the island and sailed to the mainland for supplies of water and food. You are left alone with wild nature, your goal this time will be to collect a collection of rare animals and plants. Darwin leads, the others help him.
To play the game, you will need additional components: tropical plants, collection boxes (to store what you have mined), special cell tokens, red tokens (indicate rare animals).
You will:
Catching rare animals (during the Hunt).
There is a huge amount of living creatures on this island, including rare and unknown to science. You need to collect as many rare species as possible. Create a Cage (to have somewhere to put the animal), go hunting, engage in battle. If you win, put him in a cage, now he’s in your collection. By the way, in times of famine you can use the animal for meat.
Fossil collection:
Another interesting type of discovery, from the point of view of scientists, is fossils. Fossils are found during the Gather Resource activity. Resources from a source can be collected until it is depleted.
Collection of valuable plants:
Plants are collected during the Research phase. But before that, don’t forget to create a Pot, otherwise you won’t succeed.
The storage place for all collected valuables is collection boxes.
Put all your stuff there.
You do all this for 10 rounds, then the ship arrives, you either immediately start playing the second scenario and transfer all your achievements there, or you pause the game, write down all the results or take pictures.
Scenario 2.
A terrible storm broke out and destroyed everything in its path. Everything that our travelers created during their stay on the island was broken: roofs, pens, inventions. Little was saved. Fortunately, valuable finds - plants and fossils were not damaged, but the animals escaped from their cages.
But what's wrong with the ship?!! Oh, holy heavens, it turns out he was also hit by the storm. There was serious damage on board, barrels of fresh water were washed out to sea. Now we have to repair the ship and find sources of drinking water. Without this, our travelers cannot leave the island.
The basic set remains, all the rules remain the same.
To play this scenario you will need a ship board, ship parts, barrel tokens, and large animal tokens.
The ship will undergo repairs. There are different ways to repair a ship. Either it will be a good, high-quality repair, or the bare necessities will be done, no more. Repairs will depend on your capabilities and goals.
This scenario consists of the following steps.
Ship repair.
Repairs may occur during the Build period.
You need to repair 6 parts of the Beagle. In any quality available to you. You can repair it once, but you cannot redo it.
Harvesting large trees.
Occurs during a Resource Gathering action. Trees are needed to repair the ship. You can only harvest one large tree per action.
Search for animals.
Occurs during the Research action phase. Frightened by the storm, the animals escaped from their cages. Now we need to find them all again.
Filling barrels.
We need to collect fresh water and place it in barrels. But the barrel must first be invented. One barrel holds 2 portions of water. Each plant and rare animal needs one serving. If someone doesn’t have enough water, lose extra animals and plants.
Scenario 3.
There is fresh water, the animals have been collected, the plants have been packed. The Beagle is back in form. It's time to go. Goodbye beautiful island!
According to the script, the action takes place on the high seas. The course of events is unpredictable, because... The strength of the ship now depends on how well you repaired it.
The basic set remains, all the rules remain the same.
The game also involves the ship's tablet, only from the other side. Distance rules are changing. Now actions can only be performed on a cell adjacent to the ship. Also added: shallow cards, invention cards, obstacles, change of course token, sea adventure cards, number cube, oar tokens, ship token, island tokens, defense tokens, reference sheet.
There are new activities in this game.
Hunting.
Performed during the Hunt action. When you fight an animal, you receive food equal to the amount of your current weapon.
Creation of items.
Performed during the Construction action. In this scenario, you need to create a total of 6 items. Everyone is on the ship.
Repairing the ship.
Performed during the Construction action. The weather is not happy for you, the ship is constantly being attacked by angry nature. Everything that you have repaired on it quickly becomes unusable. Something needs to be done urgently, otherwise everyone will soon become fish food.
Landing on the island.
Resource Gathering Action. As soon as the ship approaches any of the islands, the team can go ashore and collect the necessary resources. Usually collected until the island is completely depleted. Consumers!!
Dismantling.
Executed during the Gather Resources action. Where can you find wood on the high seas? Well, on a ship, of course!
If you really need it, then you can. Take the ship apart piece by piece. Just don’t forget that you still have to sail on it. Don't get carried away.
Overcoming obstacles.
Performed during the Research action. Everything is clear here. Obstacle on the way - change the ship's course.
Exploring the shallows.
Only Darwin can study the sandbank. He sits down, studies, takes notes.
All these actions are repeated for all 10 rounds. The weather changes every day. Not for the better. Every day the storm breaks a little ship. Just have time to patch it up. When night falls, each player must eat. Food doesn't spoil on a ship. But if someone lacks it, he receives 2 wounds.
Scenario 4.
Having swam enough, the Beagle sails to the island. The island is inhabited by a local tribe. It is necessary to establish contact with the residents, appease them with gifts and find out all their secrets. But it will not be easy to gain their trust; they have a very hot temper.
The basic set remains, all the rules remain the same. To play the game you will need additional components: a reference sheet, a dice with numbers, a table of tribes.
This scenario introduces 2 new actions.
Unraveling the secret.
Performed during the Research action. Each tribe has its own secret that you need to unravel. How? The cube will help you. Your fate now depends on him.
Attraction.
Attract the natives with your gifts. Lure them closer to the camp.
By level 10, the patience of the natives “bursts” and the team hastily leaves the island.
Scenario 5.
Having learned all the secrets of the savages, our travelers set off again to the open sea. This time their goal is home. But the path there is long and difficult. Over the long period of wandering, the sailors' health weakened. Having successfully overcome all the difficulties and set course for their native land, the sailors breathed a sigh of relief and relaxed. And then, suddenly, the crew was struck by illness. Misfortune never comes alone. The disease affected everyone. People, animals. Due to the lack of fresh water, plants began to die and fossils began to crumble. We must somehow gather our strength and fight back the disease. Our exhausted travelers had to interrupt their journey again and make a stop on the nearest island.
The team needs to find medicinal herbs to heal people and animals. And also save unique collections of plants and fossils.
To play the game you will need additional components: disease cards, coast cards, dice with numbers, Darwin tokens.
In this scenario, in addition to the main ones, the following actions are introduced:
Collection of medicinal herbs .
Executed during the Gather Resources action. You can collect medicinal herbs from the plain once per round. Until the source is completely depleted.
Coastal exploration.
While Darwin is trying to save everyone, the team wastes no time and explores the coast, which has a rather rich and unusual plant world.
Reveal 2 identical coast cards in a row and leave them face up. If the cards are different, turn them back face down. Be careful, remember. At the end of the game, each pair will be worth 2 victory points. Other players can come to your aid. They can remember the location of the cards along with you.
Meanwhile, Darwin wastes no time. He tries his best to help. He treats animals with the medicinal herbs he finds. If he gives the medicine at least once, the animals will remain alive until the end of the journey. When the games are counted, they will give points. If Darwin gives the cure twice, the animals are considered completely cured and will earn even more extra points.
He heals plants. True, in a rather strange way. To heal plants you need food. The principle is the same as with treating animals, only food serves as medicine.
Explore the mountains and hills - then you will save fossils and get even more points at the end of the game.
People are treated with herbs, they can also be cured by the ship's doctor, but for this everyone receives 4 wounds.
Darwin is restoring his collection. For points, of course.
At the end of the game, calculate the results.
Important! If you lose any scenario, then you do not need to start the whole game over again; it is enough to successfully play out this scenario again.
Conclusion:
"Robinson Crusoe: Voyage of the Beagle" — a worthy continuation of its initial version. The rules are no longer so confusing (probably due to the experience of playing Robinson). Unusual box design. Colorful, bright design. Rich mechanics. Interesting story. All scenarios are interconnected and complex, but they can be played out repeatedly. Passing one is impossible without passing the other. The game is devoid of aggression due to the fact that it is cooperative. If one loses, the game ends immediately. A good strategy, which consists in the correct placement of characters (similar to the game. A little extra action - the game is lost, or points are lost.
My opinion regarding the age limit remains the same; I think that 10 years is too young for this game.
A game for a quiet family evening or for a small calm company. For those who love board games and enjoy playing strategy games.
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