... and adventure that sea-travel offered. "One subgenre of adventure fiction thematizing freedom of movement as the freedom of the seas is the eighteenth century genre of the maritime picaresque that Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" helped launch,"(Cohen, 2009). It seems that Stevenson was captivated by such stories, as he used them for the inspiration of his own adventure tales ... ...

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