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Alexander Selkirk
From: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Date: 20080424
Author:
Alexander Selkirk , 1676-1721, Scottish sailor whose adventures suggested to Daniel Defoe the story of
Robinson Crusoe
(1719). In 1704, as a sailing master, Selkirk quarreled with the captain of his ship in the
Juan Fernández
islands and asked to be put ashore. He remained on Más a Tierra Island for four years and four months before he was rescued (Feb., 1709) by an English privateer.
Bibliography:
See J. Howell, The Life and Adventures of Alexander Selkirk (1829).
Author not available,
SELKIRK, ALEXANDER.
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The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition 2008
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