A man is shipwrecked on a desert island completely alone except for his loving wife, dog, couple of goats and an assortment of chickens and ducks. With nothing to rely on but his wits, assorted firearms, tools, utensils, furniture, clothes and few tons of precut timber :P .
This is a hard one to rate, if rated in a void its a decent 3 stars but i've deducted 1 due to large number of similar books.
There's a lot of god-bothering in this but its not too annoying as our hero's are so simple. For a shipwreck story its also remarkably uneventful. After awhile it becomes almost a utopian fiction, or rather its like reading someone's gaming blog where they describe playing Civilization or Age of Empires or similar fare. As this colony is built up, crops made, wood cut, research done, weapons bought, soldiers recruited, ships built etc. etc.
It becomes really bogged down in numbers too, there's a surprising amount of accounts and stock keeping detail which seems pretty superfluous.
Things do pick up again towards the end with some political commentary. Overall, i'm not really sure what the point of this book was, it's hard to classify it as a highseas adventure. In any case while it was an easy read and not boring it doesn't really have much to recommend it over other castaway stories. Not bad though on its own merits.

Note: I was very puzzled by mention of the Queen of England in 1735, when no King is mentioned. I eventually worked out this is Caroline of Ansbach, queen to George II. So there is a king at this time but he's not mentioned because he was often out of the country and Caroline was the brains of the operation and very politically influential which becomes apparent in this story. ( )