biography
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Selkirk, Alexander
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also spelled Selcraig
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1676–1721)
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| biography:
| Sailor whose story suggested that of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe, born in Largo, Fife, E Scotland, UK. He joined the South Sea buccaneers, quarrelled with his captain, and at his own request was put ashore on Juan Fernández I, off the coast of Chile (1704). He lived there alone until 1709, when he was discovered and brought back to Britain. He returned to Largo in 1712, before returning to a life at sea. |
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