It may have taken nearly 300 years but archaeologists have finally confirmed the campsite of castaway Alexander Selkirk, thought to be the inspiration for Robinson Crusoe. Scottish sailor Selkirk was ...

HE HAS become the defining image of the desert-island castaway: baggy fur claddings and musket, his hand shielding his eyes from the less-than-tropical sunlight as he scans the Firth of Forth over the ...

NEXT month will see the 295th anniversary of Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, the English writer’s first and most famous novel. It is a tale of survival against the odds that has inspired numerous ...

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, ...

A Brit became a real-life Robinson Crueson and found himself stranded on a desert island for four long years. In 1704, a sailor in the South Pacific was faced with an unenviable dilemma: stay on a ...

A house dating back to the early 1700s once lived in by the 'real Robinson Crusoe' has gone up for sale. Minards House in Oreston, Plymouth, Devon, is said to have once been lived in by Alexander ...

Probably most people know by now that the original of Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe was a Scot named Alexander Selkirk, cast away in 1704 on the desert island of Juan Fernandez in the South Pacific, ...

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