Setting

The Novel, Robinson Crusoe takes place between 1651 and 1694.  Throughout the book, many places are described, some being; England: York, Hull, Yarmouth, London, Dover, Africa: Guinea and coastal regions to the south, South America:  Brazil and an island off northeast Venezuela, near the mouth of the Orinoco River, Continental Europe:  Lisbon, Portugal, Madrid and other Spanish cities, Toulouse, Paris, and Calais, France.