Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer)-a castaway who spends twenty-eight years on a remote tropical desert island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately being rescued.

Sent to search for a legendary plant known to locals as 'the devil's snare' after the stories of it's vines entangling wayward travelers and sucking their blood dry, an ethnobotanist finds herself trapped in the Amazon Rainforest racing against rivals to uncover a medical breakthrough for a pharma company. But as she pushes deeper into the jungle, she begins to get a sense she may have walked into a deadly conspiracy. It's like Indiana Jones with a science degree. A novel that unspools the dangerous, sometimes shady real world of medicinal plant hunters. Check back and follow for a new installment each Thursday. NOTE: An audiobook version of each chapter is found if you scroll to the end of the chapter. Copyright Pineapple Crown Productions