Tag: Alexander Selkirk

• Goats and Cabbages with the ‘Real’ Robinson Crusoe

  Today in1709 Alexander Selkirk – the man regarded as the ‘real’ Robinson Crusoe – was rescued after being marooned on an uninhabited tropical island for more than four years. The journey back to England took another two years, and once there he became something of a celebrity. The story of a barefoot ‘wild man’, clad…

  chrisharding53

  February 1, 2012

  Alexander Selkirk, http://schemas.google.com/blogger/2008/kind#post