A Note About the Author 4 // A Note About This Story 6 // The Places in This Story 6 // 1 I Go to Sea 7 // 2 I Am Captured by Pirates 10 // 3 I Am Shipwrecked 15 // 4 I Find Many Things for Myself 19 // 5 I Become Very Ill 24 // 6 I Travel Across the Island 26 // 7 I Make MyselfaCanoe 30 // 8 I Find a Footprint in the Sand 34 // 9 I Hear the Sound of a Man’s Voice 38 // 10 I Call Him Friday 43 // 11 We Fight Against the Cannibals 47 // 12 We Stop a Mutiny 52 // 13 We Recapture the Ship 57 // 14 I Come Back to Europe 63 // Points for Understanding 67 // Glossary 71 // Exercises 78