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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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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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Selkirk
Selkirk town (1991 pop. 9,815), SE Man., Canada, on the Red River. Just S of Lake Winnipeg, it is a port for products from N Manitoba. There are steel mills, foundries, and shipyards in the town. It is named for the 5th earl of Selkirk, who established (1812) the Red River Settlement in the... Read more |
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Woodes Rogers
Woodes Rogers 1679?-1732, British privateer and colonial administrator. A romantic figure, Rogers plundered (1708-9) Spanish commerce in the Pacific and rescued Alexander Selkirk from the Juan Fernández islands. He later (1717) leased the Bahama islands and served as the first governor... Read more |
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Red River Settlement
Red River Settlement agricultural colony in present Manitoba, North Dakota, and Minnesota. It was the undertaking of Thomas Douglas, 5th earl of Selkirk . Wishing to relieve the dispossessed and impoverished in Scotland and Northern Ireland, he secured enough control of the Hudson's Bay Company ... Read more |
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Selkirkshire
Selkirkshire or Selkirk, former county, SE Scotland. Under the Local Government Act of 1973, Selkirkshire became (1975) part of the new Borders region (now the Scottish Borders council area).... Read more |
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William Dampier
William Dampier , 1651-1715, English explorer, buccaneer, hydrographer, and naturalist. He fought (1673) in the Dutch War, managed a plantation in Jamaica (1674), and then worked with logwood cutters in Honduras (1675-78). After taking part in a buccaneering expedition against Spanish America... Read more |
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Mungo Park
Mungo Park 1771-1806, British explorer in Africa, b. Selkirk, Scotland. After serving as a surgeon with the East India Company, he was employed by the African Association to explore the course of the Niger River. Traveling NE from the Gambia River, he reached the Niger at Segu and proceeded 300 mi... Read more |
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William Douglas duke of Hamilton
Hamilton, William Douglas, duke of [S] (1634–94). A younger son of the 1st marquis of Douglas [S], he was created earl of Selkirk in 1646, at the age of 12, when his father was campaigning with Montrose. In 1656 he married the daughter of the 1st duke of Hamilton, who had been executed in... Read more |
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Battle of Philiphaugh
Philiphaugh, battle of, 1645. Montrose's brilliant Scottish campaign, which had begun in August 1644 when he met up with a small force from Ireland, received its first check at Philiphaugh, near Selkirk, when he left the Highlands and came down towards the borders. Severely weakened by desertions,... Read more |
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Lost In The Myth
...This 1885 statue of Alexander Selkirk, the Fife village...visitors presume him to be. Alexander Selkirk - or Selcraig, as his...to the enemy, at that time France and Spain. Selkirk...down the east coast, ... |
 "The Mail on Sunday (London, England)")
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CRUSOE WAS HERE; Wendy Driver savours the isolation - and lobsters - on the...
...300 years ago. Alexander Selkirk was very different...has spent the past six years excavating...hiking boots but Selkirk would have scampered...rainforest at the same time. After a two...hummingbirds darted past us, one ... |
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En route to the real Robinson Crusoe
...often took three times thata female passenger...Chilean coast. In time, the larger two...Fernandez first sailed past it, the island...gained fortune, one Alexander Selkirk of County Fife...Robinson Crusoe. Selkirk's story ... |
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Who was man Friday?
...tourists. However, Selkirk evidently was not...ship's master, Selkirk was marooned voluntarily...the single tale of Alexander Selkirk. There were other...at much the same time ... Several had...from Barbados, past Grenada ... |
 "The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)")
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A SEARCH OF REAL PLACES FOR A FICTIONAL CASTAWAY.(Books)
...been a fellow named Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish mariner...Fernandez at a different time and might have been...not so sure that Selkirk was Defoe's man...far from where Selkirk went ashore. By...pre-industrial times. Not ... |
 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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History in short; books. (book review)
...lives and their times. The three biographies...Ned Kelly and Alexander Selkirk - have been the...onto a winner with ALEXANDER SELKIRK: The Real Robinson...wider. Once upon a time, there was Arthur...heroes from the ... |
 "Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)")
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FROM LARGO TO CRUSOE.(News)
...birthplace of Alexander Selkirk, the inspiration...other two are Isla Alexander Selkirk - where the Scot...Clara. In the past, they have been...means exciting times ahead for everyone...Sea. Home of ... |
 "Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)")
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Coast along Chile for whale of a time; Explore country from the...
...These Pacific waters hold a storied past. The major trade route before...fabricating castaways, Scotsman Alexander Selkirk spent more than four years awaiting...gullies to misty razorback peaks. Selkirk's lookout and the cliff walk... |
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NEW PROVIDENCE.(past piracy and pirates on the Bahamas)
...calico jackets he favored. For a time, the infamous Teach, known as...privateers. On this trip, he rescued Alexander Selkirk, a crusty Scottish sailor, from...Chilean island of Juan Fernandes. Selkirk was the model for the main character... |
 "The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)")
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`SEARCHING FOR CRUSOE' RECOUNTS ISLAND JOURNEYS
...Sea. At the same time, he tries to get...love affair of all time, between mankind...where Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk was marooned from 1704 to 1709. Selkirk's experience inspired...islands from Clarke's past and ... |
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