Possible Clues:

• Book about feeding birds, source unfamiliar
• “I was born in the year 1632, in the city of York, of a good family ...”
• Bird's getting on with sailors, so said the shipwrecked hero
• Novel castaway
• Steal from distraught connoisseur this classic book
• Defoe's castaway
• Literary castaway
• One who has his work done by Friday?
• Fictional castaway
• Shipwrecked literary hero