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Alexander Selkirk (1676 – 13 December 1721) was a Scottish privateer and Royal Navy officer who spent four years and four months as a castaway (1704–1709) after being marooned by his captain, initially at his request, on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean.
Sep 14, 2021 · Alexander Selkirk (or Selcraig, 1676-1721) was a Scotsman famously marooned for four years and four months on a desert island in the Pacific Ocean until his rescue by a passing British ship in February 1709. His story inspired the title character of the acclaimed 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe (c. 1660-1731).
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Alexander Selkirk was a Scottish sailor who was the prototype of the marooned traveler in Daniel Defoe’s novel Robinson Crusoe (1719). The son of a shoemaker, Selkirk ran away to sea in 1695; he joined a band of buccaneers in the Pacific and by 1703 was sailing master of a galley on a privateering.
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Feb 9, 2018 · Learn about the life and adventures of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish sailor who was abandoned on a deserted island for four years. Discover how his story inspired the famous novel by Daniel Defoe and influenced other literary works.
Alexander Selkirk was a Scottish Royal Navy officer who was ‘marooned’ by his captain on a remote uninhabited island in 1704. As a result, Selkirk spent more than four years as a castaway in the deserted island in the South Pacific Ocean.
Three centuries ago an impetuous Scottish sailor known as Alexander Selkirk—though this wasn’t his real name—was languishing off the coast of Chile in a battlescarred, worm-eaten British ...
Sep 28, 2016 · Alexander Selkirk was a Scottish buccaneer who chose to be marooned on an island for four and a half years. Learn how his story differed from the famous novel by Daniel Defoe and other survival narratives.
