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Juan Fernandez
Juan Fernández , group of small islands, S Pacific, c.400 mi (640 km) W of Valparaiso, Chile. They belong to Chile and are administered as a part of Valparaiso prov. The two principal islands are Isla Robinson Crusoe (formerly Más a Tierra) and Isla Alejandro Selkirk (formerly... Read more |
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Johann David Wyss
Johann David Wyss , 1743-1818, Swiss author. His Swiss Family Robinson (1813, tr. 1814), an internationally popular classic for children, relates the adventures of a shipwrecked family. It is based on Robinson Crusoe. The book was edited by Wyss's son Johann Rudolf Wyss, 1781-1830, who was... Read more |
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Joseph Grimaldi
Joseph Grimaldi , 1779-1837, English pantomime actor and clown. He made his debut at the age of three in Robinson Crusoe at Sadler's Wells, London. For many years he performed there and at Drury Lane. By the time he played the clown in his production of Mother Goose at Covent Garden in 1806, he... Read more |
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Johann Gottfried Schnabel
Johann Gottfried Schnabel , b. 1692, d. after 1742, German author, whose pseudonym was Gisander. He fought in the War of the Spanish Succession. Schnabel's popular novel Die Insel Felsenburg [Felsenburg island] (4 vol., 1741-43) was modeled on Robinson Crusoe but was primarily concerned with... Read more |
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Alexander Selkirk
Alexander Selkirk , 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. He remained on Más a... Read more |
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Waterloo (United States)
Waterloo city (1990 pop. 66,467), seat of Black Hawk co., NE Iowa, on the Cedar River; inc. 1868. Originally a center for sawmills and flour mills, Waterloo is a trade and industrial center in a farm and livestock area. The city's chief industries are meatpacking, soybean processing, and the... Read more |
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Castaway
97. Castaway Arden, Enoch shipwrecked sailor; lost for eleven years. [Br. Lit.: “Enoch Arden” in Benét, 316] Bligh, Captain commander of H.M.S. Bounty who was cast adrift by mutinous crew. [Am. Lit.: Mutiny on the Bounty ] Byam, Roger crew member of the Bounty cast onto... Read more |
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OHiggins
O'Higgins, Chile A lake, a cape on Easter Island, a point on Robinson Crusoe Island and a region called, in full, Libertador General Bernardo O'Higgins. All are named after Bernardo O'Higgins (c.1778–1824), who was instrumental in defeating the Spanish in 1817 and paving the way for... Read more |
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David Ames Wells
David Ames Wells 1828-98, American economist, b. Springfield, Mass., grad. Williams, 1847, and Lawrence Scientific School, Cambridge, Mass., 1851. Early in life he wrote several popular books on science. In 1864 his pamphlet Our Burden and Our Strength, dealing with the financial problems of the... Read more |
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Anita Loos
Anita Loos Anita Loos (1893-1981) is most famous for her satirical short story collection Gentlemen Prefer Blondes: The Illuminating Diary of a Professional Lady, which became a film phenomenon starring Marilyn Monroe. She was an amazingly prolific writer who turned out more than 150 works... Read more |
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Books: Castaway: the original episode Christina Hardyment enjoys following in...
...which Defoe endowed Crusoe, only "some clothes...privateers - again en route to intercept the...dignified figure of Crusoe. Nor had a Man Friday...rechristened Isla Robinson Crusoe by modern settlers...than conveying the real agony of absolute... |
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Real story of Crusoe can now be told; Author claims Selkirk's castaway tale...
...significantly, not the 'real' Crusoe. In a new book, Seeking Robinson Crusoe, author Tim Severin reveals...hardworking, God-fearing Robinson Crusoe was a continent apart...remain on one of the islands en route. Selkirk took with him his... |
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The real Crusoe's recreations.
...14.99) SEARCHING FOR CRUSOE: A Journey Among the Last Real Islands by Thurston Clarke...inspired Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, a romanticised adventure...Barbary: Along the Slave Routes of the Libyan Sahara, published... |
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something for the weekend The Crusoe Hotel, Lower Largo
...birthplace of Alexander Selkirk, the real-life Robinson Crusoe. Selkirk was born there in 1676...Defoe immortalised the tale with Robinson Crusoe in 1719, and a statue of Selkirk...Monans. Or walk the Fife coastal route from the Forth Road Bridge to... |
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CRUSOE WAS HERE; Wendy Driver savours the isolation - and lobsters - on the...
...the huge, wooden statue of Robinson Crusoe was the first thing we saw as...Pacific Ocean. It was here that the real Robinson Crusoe was marooned 300 years ago. Alexander...explained. 'It is a map showing the route the Spaniards took when they absconded... |
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Travel: Crusoe's island paradise; Tobago's main claim to fame may be...
...to most people as Robinson Crusoe, certainly left...he discovered was real enough. The hero...was based on the real-life experiences...go down the same route. And it is fortunate...Foodwise, for real creole cooking... |
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TOWARDS WINTER: In search of sunshine after the gloom Q&A - The...
...relaxing by the sea or escaping into the hills of Provence. For a real Cote d'Azur experience, travel via one of the three corniche...buses run on all three of the roads and the train follows the route of the lower corniche, which is slightly less spectacular than... |
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A Man and His Island
...Journey Among the Last Real IslandsBy Thurston...Searching for Crusoe: A Journey Among...s first stop is Robinson Crusoe's island -- or...Defoe to write "Robinson Crusoe." Located...plane passengers en route to Isla Crusoe... |
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TALE OF REAL SURVIVOR IS WORTH BIG BUCKS INJURED CLIMBER'S STORY COULD BRING...
...story,'' Meigs said. ``And Robinson Crusoe is about a man who survived a shipwreck...said. ``That can add up to some real positive revenues - $1 million or...get suckered down the exploitation route by some of the slippery people out... |
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The Real Story of 'O': Anonymity Has Its Perils.(Culture)(O: A Presidential...
...Translations of the Bible, especially, offered a short route to oblivion: William Tyndale, the first person to...Daniel Defoe, the British journalist and author of Robinson Crusoe, was put in the pillory. The author of O, whoever... |
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