What was the name of the real-life castaway upon whom Daniel Defoe based 'Robinson Crusoe'?
"Robinson Crusoe Island Robinson Crusoe Island ( ), formerly known as Más a Tierra (Closer to Land), is the second largest of the Juan Fernández Islands, situated west of San Antonio, Chile, in the South Pacific Ocean. It is the more populous of the inhabited islands in the archipelago (the other being Alejandro Selkirk Island), with most of that in the town of San Juan Bautista at Cumberland Bay on the island's north coast. The island was home to the marooned sailor Alexander Selkirk from 1704 to 1709, and is thought to have inspired novelist Daniel Defoe's fictional Robinson Crusoe"
"Daniel Defoe Daniel Defoe (; c. 1660 – 24 April 1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel ""Robinson Crusoe"", which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. He has been seen as one of the earliest proponents of the English novel, and helped to popularise the form in Britain with others such as Aphra Behn and Samuel Richardson. Defoe wrote many political tracts and often was in trouble with the authorities, including a spell in prison. Intellectuals and political leaders paid attention to"
"Robinson Crusoe (1997 film) Robinson Crusoe is a 1997 American adventure survival drama film directed by Rod Hardy and George T. Miller, and starring Pierce Brosnan in the titular role of Robinson Crusoe, based on Daniel Defoe's novel ""Robinson Crusoe"". The film opens to a fictionalized Daniel Defoe being offered to read a castaway's autobiography. He grudgingly obliges and begins to get engrossed in the narrative. Robinson Crusoe (Pierce Brosnan) is a Scottish gentleman with experience in the Royal Navy and the British army. He accidentally kills his lifelong friend Patrick (Damian Lewis) in a duel over his childhood love"
"his memory in 1870. Defoe is known to have used at least 198 pen names. Daniel Defoe Daniel Defoe (; c. 1660 – 24 April 1731), born Daniel Foe, was an English trader, writer, journalist, pamphleteer and spy. He is most famous for his novel ""Robinson Crusoe"", which is second only to the Bible in its number of translations. He has been seen as one of the earliest proponents of the English novel, and helped to popularise the form in Britain with others such as Aphra Behn and Samuel Richardson. Defoe wrote many political tracts and often was in trouble"
"Crusoe (TV series) Crusoe is a television adventure-Drama (with comedic elements) series, based loosely on the novel ""Robinson Crusoe"" by Daniel Defoe. The series' 13 episodes aired on NBC during the first half of the 2008–2009 television season. It follows the adventures of Robinson Crusoe: a man who has been shipwrecked on an island for six years and is desperate to return home to his wife and children. His lone companion is Friday, a native whom Crusoe rescued and taught English. Other characters include James Crusoe (Sean Bean), Samuel Tuffley (Mark Dexter), Nathan West (Kieran Bew), Mary Crusoe (Emma Barnett),"
"for Deschanel's conception. The Robinson Crusoe story has been reimagined so that it's not a wilderness test of survival - it's a stripped down search for values."" Crusoe (film) Crusoe is a 1988 British drama film directed by Caleb Deschanel. It is a variation on the story told in the novel ""Robinson Crusoe"", written by author Daniel Defoe. The film stars Aidan Quinn as Crusoe. Tidewater, Virginia 1808. The story begins at sea with the main protagonist, Crusoe (Aidan Quinn), en route to Africa to retrieve slaves. His ship runs into a powerful storm, and the entire crew perishes except"
"Crusoe (film) Crusoe is a 1988 British drama film directed by Caleb Deschanel. It is a variation on the story told in the novel ""Robinson Crusoe"", written by author Daniel Defoe. The film stars Aidan Quinn as Crusoe. Tidewater, Virginia 1808. The story begins at sea with the main protagonist, Crusoe (Aidan Quinn), en route to Africa to retrieve slaves. His ship runs into a powerful storm, and the entire crew perishes except for Crusoe. He eventually makes his way to a tropical island, where he is alone and stranded until he discovers that a dog named Scamp and a"
"Talk praised Brosnan's performance, but felt that the pacing was too fast and did not allow for proper immersion. Christopher Null of filmcritic.com just dismissed the film as ""laughable"". Robinson Crusoe (1997 film) Robinson Crusoe is a 1997 American adventure survival drama film directed by Rod Hardy and George T. Miller, and starring Pierce Brosnan in the titular role of Robinson Crusoe, based on Daniel Defoe's novel ""Robinson Crusoe"". The film opens to a fictionalized Daniel Defoe being offered to read a castaway's autobiography. He grudgingly obliges and begins to get engrossed in the narrative. Robinson Crusoe (Pierce Brosnan) is"
"Robinson Crusoe The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, Of York, Mariner: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. With An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by Pyrates, commonly known as Robinson Crusoe, () is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers"
"Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. Lt. Robin Crusoe USN is a 1966 comedy film released and scripted by Walt Disney, and starring Dick Van Dyke as a U.S. Navy pilot who becomes a castaway on a tropical island. Some filming took place in San Diego, while a majority of the film was shot on Kauai, Hawaii. The story was loosely based on Daniel Defoe's classic novel ""Robinson Crusoe"". It was Walt Disney's idea to make the adaptation, and this is the only film in which he received a story credit (as ""Retlaw Yensid""). While flying a routine mission for the U.S."
"When the show aired in the US it was the 13th highest rated show of the week. Robinson Crusoe (1974 television film) Robinson Crusoe is a 1974 television film version of the story by Daniel Dafoe starring Stanley Baker in the title role and Ram John Holder as Friday. In the UK, it was first broadcast in the BBC's ""Play of the Month"" on 27 November 1974. In the USA it was broadcast on NBC. Shooting took place on location at Tobago in the West Indies. Director James MacTaggart died of a heart attack shortly after filming and Stanley Baker"
"VTC7-Today TV from April 26 to June 7, 2009. Hulu offered all 13 episodes from Season 1 until September 19, 2010. Crusoe (TV series) Crusoe is a television adventure-Drama (with comedic elements) series, based loosely on the novel ""Robinson Crusoe"" by Daniel Defoe. The series' 13 episodes aired on NBC during the first half of the 2008–2009 television season. It follows the adventures of Robinson Crusoe: a man who has been shipwrecked on an island for six years and is desperate to return home to his wife and children. His lone companion is Friday, a native whom Crusoe rescued and"
"with most of its crew being lost. Being a voluntary castaway, Selkirk was able to gather numerous provisions to help him to survive, including a musket, gunpowder, carpenter's tools, a knife, a Bible, and clothing. He survived on the island for four years and four months, building huts and hunting the plentiful wildlife before his rescue on 2 February 1709. His adventures are said to be a possible inspiration for ""Robinson Crusoe"", a novel by Daniel Defoe published in 1719. Philip Ashton, born in Marblehead, Massachusetts in 1702, was captured by pirates while fishing near the coast of Nova Scotia"
"Friday (Robinson Crusoe) Friday is one of the main characters of Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel ""Robinson Crusoe"". Robinson Crusoe names the man Friday, with whom he cannot at first communicate, because they first meet on that day. The character is the source of the expression ""Man Friday"", used to describe a male personal assistant or servant, especially one who is particularly competent or loyal. Current usage also includes ""Girl Friday"". It is possible that a Misquito pirate by the name of Will became the inspiration for the character ""Friday"". Robinson Crusoe spends twenty-eight years on an island off the coast"
"Robinson Crusoe (1974 television film) Robinson Crusoe is a 1974 television film version of the story by Daniel Dafoe starring Stanley Baker in the title role and Ram John Holder as Friday. In the UK, it was first broadcast in the BBC's ""Play of the Month"" on 27 November 1974. In the USA it was broadcast on NBC. Shooting took place on location at Tobago in the West Indies. Director James MacTaggart died of a heart attack shortly after filming and Stanley Baker died of cancer in 1976. The budget was £300,000. ""The Sunday Times"" called it a ""superb production""."
"from hiding and referred to them as ""jaskiniowcy"", or ""cavemen"". The term ""Robinsons"" soon became common, a reference to the fictional castaway Robinson Crusoe in the Daniel Defoe novel. The Soviet writer and journalist Vasily Grossman, upon entering the ruined city, described finding four Jewish and six non-Jewish Poles who had just left their hideouts. The term and the analogy with the castaway has often been made by Robinsons in their own memoirs, as well as by other writers. Dawid Fogelman had been imprisoned at the Gęsiówka concentration camp. After the camp was liberated by the Polish Home Army, he"
"Robinson Crusoe (1902 film) Robinson Crusoe () is a 1902 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès, based on Daniel Defoe's book of the same name. Robinson Crusoe, a sailor, is shipwrecked on an island. He gathers what provisions he can from the wreck, including a dog and a cat, who are the only other survivors of the catastrophe. After signaling a passing ship to no avail, Crusoe builds a hut. Elsewhere on the island, at the base of a cliff, cannibal natives have taken prisoners, and have eaten all but one of them. They are about to kill the"
"his story, 200 years old by then but still very popular, in one of his visits to Spain before becoming a writer. Yet another source for Defoe's novel may have been the Robert Knox account of his abduction by the King of Ceylon Rajasinha II of Kandy in 1659 in ""An Historical Relation of the Island Ceylon"". Tim Severin's book ""Seeking Robinson Crusoe"" (2002) unravels a much wider and more plausible range of potential sources of inspiration, and concludes by identifying castaway surgeon Henry Pitman as the most likely. An employee of the Duke of Monmouth, Pitman played a part"
"Robinson Crusoe (2016 film) Robinson Crusoe (released in North America as The Wild Life) is a 2016 Belgian-French 3D computer-animated adventure comedy film directed by Vincent Kesteloot and Ben Stassen and written by Lee Christopher, Domonic Paris and Graham Weldon. The film is loosely based on ""Robinson Crusoe"" by Daniel Defoe, but from the point of view of the island's animals. All the animals inhabited a tiny isolated South Pacific Island. One of them, a Scarlet Macaw named Mak and his friends, including an echidna named Epi, a chameleon named Carmello, a Tapir named Rosie, a kingfisher named Kiki, an"
"8 January 1959. Tradition has it that Daniel Defoe met Alexander Selkirk, his inspiration for ""Robinson Crusoe"", here, and it was Robert Louis Stevenson’s inspiration for the Admiral Benbow in ""Treasure Island"". In the Victorian era the pub was associated with the Theatre Royal, which is across the road, and was visited by many performers and musicians including Henry Irving. A ""trow"" was a flat-bottomed barge, and Llandogo is a village north-west of Bristol, across the Severn Estuary and upstream on the River Wye in South Wales, where trows were once built. Trows historically sailed to trade in Bristol from"
"in 2000AD. Although Defoe is set in the seventeenth, rather than nineteenth, century, the character owes a lot to the real-life boxer, being a retired bare-knuckle fighter of note whose nickname was also ""Bendy"" and who famously defeated a Ben Caunt. William Thompson (boxer) William Abednego Thompson (11 October 1811 – 23 August 1880) was an English bare-knuckle boxer. Born in Sneinton, Nottingham in 1811, Thompson was one of a set of triplets named Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, after the young men in the Book of Daniel who emerged from the fiery furnace of Babylon. He was the last of"
"is attested by a very sober and understanding gentlewoman, a kinswoman of the said gentleman's, who lives in Canterbury, within a few doors of the house in which the within-named Mrs Bargrave lives"". The pamphlet has often and for many years been attributed to Daniel Defoe, though this has been challenged in a 2003 paper by George Starr. Defoe had a long-standing interest in what would now be termed the supernatural and addressed the topic several times in his works. His 1720 ""Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe"", the ""sequel"" to his much more famous 1719 novel ""Robinson Crusoe"", described ""A"
"Robinson Crusoe (1954 film) Robinson Crusoe (; also known as Adventures of Robinson Crusoe) is a 1954 Mexican film by director Luis Buñuel, based on the novel ""Robinson Crusoe"" by Daniel Defoe. Both English and Spanish versions were produced. Dan O'Herlihy was nominated for the 1955 Academy Award for Best Actor. Robinson Crusoe (Dan O'Herlihy), a third son with few prospects, goes to sea against his father's wishes. On a voyage from Brazil to Africa to collect slaves, a storm forces him to abandon ship. He swims alone to a deserted island somewhere in the Atlantic Ocean on September 30,"
"a new score by Maud Nelissen and with an English translation of Méliès's original narration read live by Paul McGann, premiered on 35mm film at the Giornate del Cinema Muto in Pordenone in 2012. Robinson Crusoe (1902 film) Robinson Crusoe () is a 1902 French silent film directed by Georges Méliès, based on Daniel Defoe's book of the same name. Robinson Crusoe, a sailor, is shipwrecked on an island. He gathers what provisions he can from the wreck, including a dog and a cat, who are the only other survivors of the catastrophe. After signaling a passing ship to no"
"actual life and, from that, generated a fictional life. Instead of an expelled Scotsman, Crusoe became a devout Puritan. Instead of remaining alone the entire time, Crusoe encountered a savage named Friday, whom he civilized. The actual Selkirk had been a slave trader, and Crusoe becomes a far more enlightened teacher and missionary. Travel writing sold very well during the period, and tales of extraordinary adventures with pirates and savages were devoured by the public, and Defoe satisfied an essentially journalistic market with his fiction. Defoe would continue to draw from life and news for his next novels. In the"
"first professional acting job after leaving the French actors school in Paris in 1964. (In Defoe's novel Crusoe is only 27, and his father a German émigré from Bremen, surnamed Kreutznaer, so that Crusoe is an anglicization of this name.) Franco London Film made three different cuts of the show available (four-part, six-part and thirteen-part versions) to accommodate the broadcasting requirements of countries buying the serial. The success of this production led to a series of 16 French/German co-production adaptations of classic adventure and children's novels between 1964 and 1983, for ZDF and ORTF in France. These serials are known"
"audience of potential English emigrants; Traill also published a large amount of fiction, beginning when she still lived in England and written in a didactive style. Traill's Canadian works were amongst the first to have a Canadian setting and ""Canadian Crusoes"" was the first to feature a Canadian-born protagonist. Her sister and fellow emigrant Susanna Moodie also published fiction, but in an English setting following English conventions. The work is set in what is today central southern Ontario, just south of Rice Lake, where three children become lost and must fend for themselves. Drawing from its namesake, Daniel Defoe's 1719"
"scale. Robinson Crusoe (2016 film) Robinson Crusoe (released in North America as The Wild Life) is a 2016 Belgian-French 3D computer-animated adventure comedy film directed by Vincent Kesteloot and Ben Stassen and written by Lee Christopher, Domonic Paris and Graham Weldon. The film is loosely based on ""Robinson Crusoe"" by Daniel Defoe, but from the point of view of the island's animals. All the animals inhabited a tiny isolated South Pacific Island. One of them, a Scarlet Macaw named Mak and his friends, including an echidna named Epi, a chameleon named Carmello, a Tapir named Rosie, a kingfisher named Kiki,"
"Robinsonade Robinsonade () is a literary genre that takes its name from the 1719 novel ""Robinson Crusoe"" by Daniel Defoe. The success of this novel spawned so many imitations that its name was used to define a genre, which is sometimes described simply as a ""desert island story"" or a ""castaway narrative"". The word ""robinsonade"" was coined by the German writer Johann Gottfried Schnabel in the Preface of his 1731 work ""Die Insel Felsenburg"" (""The Island Stronghold""). It is often viewed as a subgenre of survivalist fiction. ""Robinson Crusoe"" and ""robinsonades"" share plot elements with William Shakespeare's ""The Tempest"", but"
"Daniel Defoe's ""Robinson Crusoe"" (1719), has elements of the romance, unlike these novels, because of its exotic setting and story of survival in isolation. ""Crusoe"" lacks almost all of the elements found in these new novels: wit, a fast narration evolving around a group of young fashionable urban heroes, along with their intrigues, a scandalous moral, gallant talk to be imitated, and a brief, conciseness plot. The new developments did, however, lead to Eliza Haywood's epic length novel, ""Love in Excess"" (1719/20) and to Samuel Richardson's ""Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded"" (1741). Some literary historians date the beginning of the English"
"Lower Largo Lower Largo or Seatown of Largo is a village in Fife, Scotland, situated on Largo Bay along the north side of the Firth of Forth. It is east of, and continguos with, Lundin Links. An ancient fishing village, in the parish of Largo, Lower Largo is famous as the 1676 birthplace of Alexander Selkirk, who provided inspiration for Daniel Defoe's ""Robinson Crusoe"". A signpost at the harbour points to Juan Fernández Islands, some 7,500 miles distant, where Selkirk lived for more than four years as a castaway. The arrival of the railway in 1856 brought many tourists to"
"film proved to be a financial hit grossing over $22 million at the box office. It was re-released to theaters in 1974. TV Guide gave the movie 1 out of 5 stars, stating ""Robinson Crusoe update is wholly contrived and not really creative."" Lt. Robin Crusoe, U.S.N. Lt. Robin Crusoe USN is a 1966 comedy film released and scripted by Walt Disney, and starring Dick Van Dyke as a U.S. Navy pilot who becomes a castaway on a tropical island. Some filming took place in San Diego, while a majority of the film was shot on Kauai, Hawaii. The story"
"to raise funds for protection have been dwarfed. Marvin Orlando Cerdas, a judge with the local Puntarenas Court of Justice, obscurely allowed 22 poachers caught red-handed to escape the country. Also under highly suspicious and allegedly corrupt circumstances, District Attorney Michael Morales Molina stopped the auction for public benefit of confiscated goods, immediately after the spokesman of the large illegal poacher ship ""Tiuna"" simply made the request. The book ""Desert Island"" proposed the highly detailed theory that Daniel Defoe used the Isla del Coco as an accurate model for his descriptions of the island inhabited by the marooned Robinson Crusoe."