The real Robinson Crusoe: Alexander Selkirk was marooned for 52 months in the South Seas.(Features)(Books)

The Christian Science Monitor | February 21, 2002 | Copyright

Byline: John Freeman

In September 1704, a ship by the name of Cinque Ports rowed into the bay of a tiny island 300 miles west of Chile. Its sailors were exhausted and mutinous with frustration. They had been at sea for the better part of a year searching for Spanish galleons to pillage with little to show for their efforts. Their stay on shore would be short, just long enough to refit their ships and gather food stores. When their captain gave orders to sail just one month later, a Scottish sailor named Alexander Selkirk protested, claiming that their vessel was ...

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