Ang Bagong Robinson (Tomo 1)
By Joachim Heinrich Campe (translated by Tomás de Iriarte and Joaquín Tuason)
Cover: Palm Tree, Nassau by Winslow Homer (1836-1910) · Wikimedia Commons · Public domain
A father in a house near Hamburg tells his children a tale for each evening, the story of a young man cast away on a desert island who must make everything he needs with his own hands. Over thirteen evenings the first volume follows the shipwreck and the first years of toil, with the children's questions interrupting the telling. Campe's moral retelling of Robinson Crusoe, in the Tagalog of Iriarte and Tuason. This book uses the racial and other slurs of its period as written; the Book Guide explains these words where they occur.
Summary written with Claude Sonnet 5.5.