The well-known novel by the classic of the English literature Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) was written on the basis of real event: a sailor Alexander Selkirk, because of his conflict with the captain, was left on the desert island with the minimum stores of provision and spent there four years. The ins and outs of his interaction with natural forces, with the God, his deeper self-awareness and perceiving his own true necessities of life — all of this is intervolved into the thrilling account about the adventures of a man who from the comfortable conditions of civilisation found himself in the unfriendly "green desert" without absolutely indispensible essentials and tools of labour. The hero, anew for himself, defines the values of many things and some of his conclusions may seem somewhat unexpected for our contemporaries.