What was the name of the real-life castaway upon whom Daniel Defoe based 'Robinson Crusoe'?
Robinson Crusoe to believe he was a real person and the book a travelogue of true incidents. Epistolary, confessional, and didactic in form, the book is presented as an autobiography of the title character (whose birth name is Robinson Kreutznaer)—a castaway who spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near Trinidad, encountering cannibals, captives, and mutineers, before ultimately being rescued. The story has been thought to be based on the life of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who lived for four years on a Pacific island called "Más a Tierra", now part of Chile, which was renamed Robinson Crusoe Island
The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (now more commonly rendered as ""The Further adventures of Robinson Crusoe"") is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published in 1719. Just as in its significantly more popular predecessor, "Robinson Crusoe" (1719), the first edition credits the work's fictional protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author. It was published under the considerably longer original title: "The Farther Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; Being the Second and Last Part of His Life, And of the Strange Surprising Accounts of his Travels Round three Parts of the Globe." Although intended to be