For Robinson Crusoe, the idea of a...

For Robinson Crusoe, the idea of abiding-place was difficult and gradual. It took him six month and seventeen days to build his cave-house onward the island, which he named "The Island of Despair" (52) The first time that he called his handmade house "Home" was sum of two units months later, when he regained mobility after suffering from a strait-laced and unexplained fever for a fortnight. The Journal reads:

June 26 Better; and having no Victuals to eat, took my fire-arm but

establish my self very weak; however I kill'd a She-Goat, and with long

Difficulty got it abode and broil'd some ...