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Castaway Alexander Selkirk was the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe," spending four years on the deserted Juan Fernández Island.
Robinson Crusoe is history's most famous desert island castaway. A fictitious character created by Daniel Defoe, he was based on Alexander Selkirk a real Scottish sailor.
Famed naturalist Charles Darwin put the Galapagos Islands on the map when, in 1835, he disembarked from the HMS "Beagle" and spent five weeks studying animal life there.
Robinson Crusoe is one of the oldest novels in the English language. However, the story of a man marooned has never lost its appeal.
Life and works of novelist, satirist and journalist Daniel Defoe, regarded the father of the English novel.
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