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| | Alexander Selkirk: the real Robinson Crusoe |
 | | Selkirk argued with Dampier, warning him of the possibility of an uprising by the crew. | | | After his eventual rescue, Selkirk told tales of dancing and singing with his pet cats and goats in the moonlight. | | | Returning to the ship for the last time, Selkirk packed up his bedding, a firelock rifle, some powder, bullets, tobacco, a hatchet, a knife, a kettle, a Bible, his mathematical instruments, and some books. |
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| | Alexander Selkirk: part 2 |
| | At this point in life Selkirk realized that he was a man of the sea and no other life would suit him. | | | Selkirk returned to his cats and goats who proved far more friendly. | | | Alexander Selkirk, having come from obscurity returned to obscurity but remained forever immortalized as the man "Robinson Crusoe." |
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| | Pirates & Privateers: the History of Maritime Piracy - Alexander Selkirk, the Real Robinson Crusoe |
| | Alexander Selkirk, the seventh son of a Scottish shoemaker, possessed a keen mind and a nasty temper, which eventually resulted in a summons before church elders in Fife for indecent behavior. | | | Woodes Rogers dubbed Selkirk ‘Governor of The Island,’ its ‘Absolute Monarch.’ In a letter to those who had financed the expedition, Rogers wrote: a Scotchman
left there by Captain Stradling
survived four Years and four Months without conversing with any creature, having no Company but wild Goats and his Catt. | | | In 1713, Sir Richard Steele had interviewed Selkirk and his account, as well as a second edition of Rogers’ A Cruising Voyage Round the World published five years later, may have inspired Daniel Defoe to write Robinson Crusoe in 1719. |
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| | Selkirk is not so easily discouraged; this cat he must have, he must have her alive; he wishes to make her the guardian of his cabin, his protector against the rats. | | | Selkirk stops; he comprehends the mute language of the bird. | | | Sometimes Selkirk, leaving his companions in the midst of their bottles and glasses, would describe a tangent towards the counter, and come to converse with the pretty hostess. |
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| | Andrew Selkirk, The Real Robinson Crusoe |
| | Alexander Selkirk returned to Lower Largo much to the delight and surprise of his family who had believed him dead. | | | Robinson Crusoe was the character in a book written by novelist Daniel Defoe in 1719. | | | Later Daniel Defoe (1161-1731), who was a spy for the English government in 1707, wrote his book on "Robinson Crusoe" in 1719. |
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| | The Real Robinson Crusoe |
| | In any case, Selkirk was left ashore, but when he realized that none of the crew was joining him in the mutiny, he frantically waded back into the ocean and begged forgiveness from Stradling, a tyrant who delighted in saying no. | | | Fortunately, for Selkirk's sake and world literature's, he accepted his fate, survived, and upon his return to England, inspired one of the world's great tales of self-reliance and courage, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. | | | He was a pirate, a hothead and a lout, but castaway Alexander Selkirk—the author's ancestor—inspired one of the greatest yarns in literature |
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http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues05/jul05/crusoe.html
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| | Alexander Selkirk |
| | The Person I speak of is Alexander Selkirk, whose Name is familiar to Men of Curiosity, from the Fame of his having lived four years and four Months alone in the Island of Juan Fernandez. | | | The passages from contemporary accounts about Selkirk will let you decide for yourself how much Defoe relied on the details of Selkirk's story, which was well known. | | | Under the Title of this Paper, I do not think it foreign to my Design, to speak of a Man born in Her majesty's Dominions, and relate an Adventure in his Life so uncommon, that it's doubtful whether the like has happen'd to any other of human Race. |
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http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/novel_18c/defoe/selkirk.html
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| | Amazon.com: Books: Selkirk's Island: The True and Strange Adventures of the Real Robinson Crusoe |
| | "Selkirk's Island" is a reputable history of the life of Selkirk, his voyages with Woodes Rogers and William Dampier (whose ineptitude as a leader Souhami makes abundantly clear), and a vivid description and history of his island. | | | Born the seventh son of a poor cobbler, Selkirk fought violently with his brothers and dreamed about the "adventure, gold and escape" that the sea seemed to promise. | | | Selkirk's Island is a book filled with fascinating facts woven together with logical conjecture. |
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http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0151005265?v=glance
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| | Alexander Selkirk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Selkirk was discovered off the island by the Duke's Captain, Woodes Rogers. | | | He also read from the Bible frequently, finding it beneficial to his emotional state and grasp of English. | | | Rogers eventually made Selkirk his mate and gave him the independent command of one of his prizes. |
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| | Selkirk Island is named for the obstinate Scottish sailor who marooned himself on a nearby island, inspiring Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. | | | Selkirk images on other days: Landsat 7 ETM+ previews, WRS2 path 6, row 83, from the Earth Observing System Data Gateway at edcimswww.cr.usgs.gov/pub/imswelcome: | | | Landsat images elsewhere: Landsat 7 ETM+ previews from the Earth Observing System Data Gateway at edcimswww.cr.usgs.gov/pub/imswelcome: |
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| | Dyce, Alexander -- Encyclopædia Britannica |
| | James Barry, the brothers John and Alexander Runciman, John Brown, George Romney, and the Swiss-born Henry Fuseli favoured themes—whether literary, historical, or purely imaginary—determined by a taste for the pathetic, bizarre, and extravagantly heroic. | | | The inspiration for the title character in Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel ‘Robinson Crusoe' was the Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk. | | | His detailed, unbiased observations and his ability to characterize pioneer life with striking realism made the book a historical classic. |
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| | Alexander Selkirk |
| | Cowper's "Lines on Solitude, supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk," beginning "I am monarch of all I survey," are well known. | | | Cowper's " Lines on Solitude, supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk," beginning "I am monarch of all I survey," are well known. | | | In his account of his voyage (1712) he tells of Selkirk's experiences in the island. |
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| | BBC - History - Scottish History |
| | Frequently history is stranger than fiction and none more so than in the tale of Alexander Selkirk: the real-life Robinson Crusoe. | | | At the age of 19 he found himself in trouble with the Kirk Session after his brother’s trick of making him drink sea water resulted in a family fight. | | | Selkirk re-embarked on his career as a privateer and within a year he was master of the ship that rescued him. |
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| | Alexander Selkirk |
| | His adventures inspired Daniel Defoe to write one of the best loved stories of all time. | | | He lived alone there until rescued in February 1709 by the commander of an English privateer, the Duke. | | | Selkirk subsequently continued his career as a sailor, and at the time of his death he was master's mate on the English man-of-war Weymouth. |
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| | Search Encyclopedia.com |
| | Selkirk, Alexander Selkirk, Alexandersĕl´kerk, 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. |
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| | Worldisround - Islas Juan Fernandez - Pacific Islands pictures |
| | Shortly after, Daniel Defoe wrote a story that many say was inspired by Selkirk's ordeal. | | | That tale was one of the first written novels as we know them today, Robinson Crusoe. | | | Upon his rescue by an English ship four years later, Selkirk became famous in England as the story of his ordeal became well known. |
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| | The Best Reviews: Diana Souhami, Selkirk's Island Review |
| | Selkirk digs deep into the records of the time so that the audience obtains a complete picture of the man, which is quite different from the legend. | | | In 1704, they set sail with one of the sailors being Alexander Selkirk, a poor Scot. | | | Alexander and the officers especially Captain Dampier had several arguments. |
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| | ALEXANDER SELKIRK (or SELCRAIG) - LoveToKnow Article on ALEXANDER SELKIRK (or SELCRAIG) |
| | In 1719, shortly after a second edition of Rogers Voyage had appeared (1718), Defoe published Robinson Crusoe. | | | Selkirk returned to the Thames on the 14th of October 1711; he was back at Largo in 1712, in 1717 we find him again at sea, and in 1721 he died as masters mate of H.M.S. Weymouth (December 12th). | | | Steele made Selkirks acquaintance, and gave a sketch of the adventurer and his story in the Englishman for the 3rd of December 1713. |
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http://99.1911encyclopedia.org/S/SE/SELKIRK_or_SELCRAIG_ALEXANDER.htm
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| | Athena Review 1,2: New World Voyages of William Dampier |
| | These adventures, told in his own books, are corroborated in the writings of two of Dampier's shipmates, Basil Ringrose (whose journal was included in Esquemeling's Buccaneers of America, printed in 1685); and the surgeon Lionel Wafer, whose own account was published in 1699. | | | Selkirk, whose story was retold by Daniel Defoe in Robinson Crusoe (1719), was eventually rescued by Dampier on his last voyage. | | | Dampier's most unusual associate, however, was probably Alexander Selkirk, a member of the crew of the 1703 voyage who was marooned by his own wish on Juan Fernandez Island. |
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| | MSN Encarta - Search Results - Alexander Selkirk |
| | Verses Supposed to be Written by Alexander Selkirk (quotations) | | | Search for books about your topic, "Alexander Selkirk" | | | Selkirk, Alexander (1676-1721), Scottish sailor, born in Largo in the Fife region. |
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| | An Inaugural Sale and the Passing of an Old Family Business; Maine Antique Digest, October 1998 |
| | Remember, I could not confirm that this man was ever even an auctioneer; in addition, his association with the date 1830 seems dubious. | | | For the next 30 years of historical records, however, Alexander Selkirk was never identified as doing anything other than bookkeeping or clerking. | | | Of course this man was not a Selkirk, but he would have been a direct blood ancestor in the Selkirk line that culminates with Bruce B. Jr. |
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| | The extraordinary story upon which the famous fictional character Robinson Crusoe was based. | | | In 1704 Alexander Selkirk, A mariner, was marooned on the uninhabited island of Juan Fernandez. |
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| | William Cowper - Poetic Examples from BOB'S BYWAY |
| | This is the full text of the poem of which the first stanza is shown in the Glossary to illustrate the term, scan. | | | Selkirk remained alone on the island for four years and four months, until finally rescued by an English vessel in 1709. | | | Born in Scotland in 1676, Alexander Selkirk ran away to sea when he was nineteen. |
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| | Alexander Selkirk, the Real Robinson Crusoe |
| | Article URL: http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/6236/92254 Title: Alexander Selkirk, the Real Robinson Crusoe Description: While Robinson Crusoe was a fictional character, Daniel Defoe based him on a real man. Alexander Selkirk never dreamed he would live on an uninhabited island. | | | Yet when he signed aboard William Dampier's privateering expedition, Selkirk found himself caught up in circumstances that would eventually lead to his marooning. | | | I thought you might find this article interesting. |
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| | Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 2001024979 |
| | Acclaimed biographer Diana Souhami evokes all the strangeness and wonder of his story and interprets the haze created by three centuries of literature and legend. | | | The result is a brilliantly lucid and lyrical recovery and discovery of a forgotten man and his unforgettable experience. | | | After a series of misfortunes and disagreements among the crew, Selkirk was put ashore on an island three hundred miles west of South America, where he spent four years learning to survive with little more than his bare hands. |
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| | Robinson Crusoe Online |
| | We have books about and/or by Jack Rackham and Alexander Exquemelin and Anne Bonny and Mary Read and Edward Teach aka Edward Thatch aka Blackbeard. | | | Alexander Selkirk was marooned on the larger of these two islands. | | | We have pirate swords, did we mention those, they're sweet. |
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| | John Harrison: Where the Earth Ends: Alexander Selkirk |
| | Selkirk exploded, telling him the boat was rotten and if the repairs were not completed it would sink, as it had in his dream. | | | Selkirk may have been on the 1699 expedition of William Dampier in the Roebuck. | | | Selkirk had respected Captain Pickering, but when he died, Thomas Stradling took over, a man with a temper to match Selkirk's. |
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| | Daniel Defoe - Free Online Library |
| | Selkirk claimed that he had become a "better Christian" and it was a positive experience. | | | As a journalist Defoe must have heard his story and possibly interviewed him. | | | Selkirk went to sea in 1704 under William Dampier and was put ashore at his own request - or, according to some sources, as a punishment of insubordination - on the island of Juan Fernandez in the Pacific, hundreds of miles off the coast of Chile. |
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| | CliffsNotes::Robinson Crusoe:Book Summary and Study Guide |
| | Many of Selkirk's activities on his island are paralleled by Robinson Crusoe on his island; for example, Selkirk fed on turnips, fish, and goat's meat; he became overrun with cats, and he had to use his ingenuity to survive, all reflected in Defoe's novel. | | | When he realized the effect of his actions, he pleaded with his shipmates to come back for him, but it was too late. | | | The impetus for the idea for Robinson Crusoe came to Defoe from his reading of the account of a man named Alexander Selkirk who, in a fit of anger, had himself put ashore on a deserted island. |
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| | The Selkirk Lighthouse Home Page |
| | In his own words, the Selkirk Lighthouse is one of the best examples of its kind (of which only four were constructed) and in perhaps the best condition of its kind to be found anywhere. | | | Legend has it that his followers here thought that naming the community after him would be fitting tribute. | | | This fellow was put ashore on a South Sea island for four years as punishment by a captain he had disobeyed. |
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| | CE0ZRC QSL |
| | In 1704 a Scottish sailor named Alexander Selkirk requested to be put ashore on one of the islands in the Juan Fernandez archipelago following an argument with his captain. | | | Daniel Defoe based his fiction work Robinson Crusoe on the true story of Alexander Selkirk. | | | He lived on that island alone for four years. |
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| | Re: Alexander Selkirk-Scot>Eng>MO |
| | re Alexander Selkirk and his life on the island. | | | The story Robinson Crusoe was indeed based on the life story of Alexander Selkirk. | | | He was born in 1676, the 7th son on John Selcraige and Euphan Mackie. |
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| | Alexander Selkirk - netlexikon |
| | Selkirk starb 1723 als Leutnant an Bord des königlichen Schiffes Weymouth vermutlich an Gelbfieber. | | | Sie entdeckten Selkirk und verfolgten ihn bis in den Insel-Urwald, wo sie seine Spur verloren. | | | Als man auf der unbewohnten Isla Mas a Tierra landete, stellte sich heraus, dass der Rumpf des Schiffes sehr stark durch Bohrmuscheln beschädigt war. |
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| | Alexander Selkirk, Robinson Crusoe |
| | He had to survive on his own until, in 1709, he was rescued by a passing ship. | | | A high-spirited young man, Selkirk first ran away to sea in 1695, ultimately joining a privateer in 1703. | | | But an unwise quarrel with the captain left him marooned on the uninhabited South Pacific island of Juan Fernandez. |
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| | ALEXANDER SELKIRK |
| | Hij overlijdt in 1723 terwijl hij luitenant is aan boord van het Koninklijke schip de Weymouth. | | | Een van de eilanden in de Juan Fernández groep heet Alejandro Selkirk. | | | Rogers was de kapitein van een prive schip met rechten om de vijand aan te vallen, en maakte Selkirk zijn maat. |
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| | Selkirk's Island - Narratives & Adventure |
| | The true and strange story of the real Robinson Crusoe. | | | A revealing account of Alexander Selkirk's adventures on the high seas and four years marooned on a remote island.^Author:~ Diana Souhami^Pages: ~246^Binding: ~PB^Pub Date: ~2002^Size: ~5 1/4 x 8 1/4^ISBN: ~0-15-602717-8 |
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| | Overview of Alexander Selkirk |
| | Selkirk was the model for Daniel Defoe's "Robinson Crusoe" (published 1719), having lived for more than four years on an uninhabited island in the Juan Fernandez island group (1704-9). | | | These islands, lying W of chile in the S. Pacific, today include the Isla Alejandro Selkirk and the Isla Robinson Crusoe. | | | Born in the fishing village of Lower Largo in Fife. |
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| | George Selkirk Statistics - Baseball-Reference.com |
| | Statistics may come from our work, the Baseball Databank, or other sources including SABR.org. | | | You Are Here > Baseball-Reference.com > Players > George Selkirk | | | Name and misspellings: gearge goerge George George gearge goerge alaxander Alexander Twinkletoes Selkirk |
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| | Click on picture for larger image, full item, or more versions. | | | Chile - Robinson Crusoe's Island--Once occupied by the castaway, Alexander Selkirk, and now the site of a penal colony and the fishing ground of lobstermen |
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| | Re: Alexander Selkirk-Scot>Eng>MO |
| | I am wondering how your line has been recorded to a direct link with Alexander Selkirk (aka Robinson Cruseo) | | | In Reply to: Re: Alexander Selkirk-Scot>Eng>MO by Pat Millar | | | Do you have any information on the Selkirk lineage? |
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