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How Was The Tale Of Robinson Crusoe Birthed?
Popular fiction about people becoming stranded on desert islands includes Robinson 8, for example. This all began with a single tale, Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, which was first published more than 300 years ago. Moreover, it is frequently cited as the first novel in English literature.
Alexander Selkirk, The Inspiration Behind Crusoe
Many people believed that this book was based on a real event. Robinson Crusoe is a work of fiction, but it turns out that Alexander Selkirk’s amazing survival tale had a significant influence.
He was one of seven brothers and was born in Lower Largo, Scotland, in 1676. He had a tendency to act erratically. He was once called to a gathering with the town seniors for indecent conduct, according to a Lower Largo church record from 1693.
Selkirk set sail for the choppy North Sea, and it took him an entire 80 years to make it back to his hometown. Selkirk had only been home for five minutes when he was once more in trouble with the local parish, this time for the much less murkier offense of hitting his family. According to the legend, he was tricked into drinking salt water from a can. He responded by…
