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Castaways: Robinson Crusoe, Alexander Selkirk, Castaway, Castaway Depot, the Mysterious Island, Steven Callahan, Grafton, Desert Island

Castaways: Robinson Crusoe, Alexander Selkirk, Castaway, Castaway Depot, the Mysterious Island, Steven Callahan, Grafton, Desert Island


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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 39. Chapters: Robinson Crusoe, Alexander Selkirk, Castaway, Castaway depot, The Mysterious Island, Steven Callahan, Grafton, Desert island, General Grant, Narcisse Pelletier, Nakahama Manjir, William Strachey, Marguerite de La Rocque, Invercauld, Poon Lim, Compadre, Otokichi, Fernao Lopez, Leendert Hasenbosch, Jesus Vidana, Daikokuya K day, Dougal Robertson, Mr. Robinson Crusoe, Derry Castle, Ada Blackjack, Thomas Musgrave, Anjou, Maurice and Maralyn Bailey, Philip Ashton, Barbara Thompson, Dembei, Pedro Serrano, Charles Barnard, Rose Noelle, Oguri Jukichi, Minerva, Henry Wilson. Excerpt: Robinson Crusoe (English pronunciation: ) is a novel by Daniel Defoe that was first published in 1719. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is a fictional autobiography of the title character-a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers before being rescued. The story was perhaps influenced by Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on the Pacific island called "Mas a Tierra" (in 1966 its name was changed to Robinson Crusoe Island), Chile. The details of Crusoe's island were probably based on the Caribbean island of Tobago, since that island lies a short distance north of the Venezuelan coast near the mouth of the Orinoco river, in sight of Trinidad. It is also likely that Defoe was inspired by the Latin or English translations of Ibn Tufail's Hayy ibn Yaqdhan, an earlier novel also set on a desert island. Another source for Defoe's novel may have been Robert Knox's account of his abduction by the King of Ceylon in 1659 in "An Historical Account of the Island Ceylon," Glasgow: James MacLehose and Sons (Publishers to the University), 1911. Although inspired by a real life event, it was the first notable work of literature whe...


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781155521046
  • Publisher: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Publisher Imprint: Books LLC, Wiki Series
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 40
  • Spine Width: 2 mm
  • Weight: 91 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1155521048
  • Publisher Date: 13 Aug 2011
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: Robinson Crusoe, Alexander Selkirk, Castaway, Castaway Depot, the Mysterious Island, Steven Callahan, Grafton, Desert Island
  • Width: 189 mm


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