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"There was a man called Alexander Selkirk, who was left there from one of Lord Anson's ships, and a first-rate writer -- Daniel Defoe by name -- got hold of his account, on which he founded the story of Robinson
A Voyage round the World A book for boys William Henry Giles Kingston 1847
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Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk, the probable real-life inspiration for the fictional Robinson Crusoe, spent four years as a castaway on a remote South Pacific island in the early 18th century, scavenging shellfish and hunting goats.
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Ironically, the Juan Fernández archipelago, the now Chilean island group where Alexander Selkirk was stranded, did not make on our list.
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Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk, the probable real-life inspiration for the fictional Robinson Crusoe, spent four years as a castaway on a remote South Pacific island in the early 18th century, scavenging shellfish and hunting goats.
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Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk, the probable real-life inspiration for the fictional Robinson Crusoe, spent four years as a castaway on a remote South Pacific island in the early 18th century, scavenging shellfish and hunting goats.
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Oakland-based reader “Ambitious Learner” received a briefer response: “Yes, you are right—America was not discovered by Alexander Selkirk.”
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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Probably inspired by the true-life tale of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who spent four years on a Pacific island, it chronicles Crusoe's life from his childhood to his 28-year involuntary stint on the "Island of Despair", off the coast of Venezuela.
Ten of the most vivid accounts of being marooned in literature 2010
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Ironically, the Juan Fernández archipelago, the now Chilean island group where Alexander Selkirk was stranded, did not make on our list.
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Today in 1709, Alexander Selkirk was rescued after being shipwrecked on a desert island, inspiring the book Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe.
madkestrel: Today in 1709, Alexander Selkirk was res madkestrel 2010
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Oakland-based reader “Ambitious Learner” received a briefer response: “Yes, you are right—America was not discovered by Alexander Selkirk.”
LIGHTING OUT FOR THE TERRITORY JR. ROY MORRIS 2010
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