All Washed Up.(books about castaways)(Brief Article)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 10-JUN-02

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In 1704 a Scottish sailor, Alexander Selkirk, was abandoned on a remote South Sea island. Rescued more than four years later, Selkirk became a celebrity, as well as the model for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. Diana Souhami's SELKIRK'S ISLAND (Harcourt) separates truth from literature: although the ever-ingenious Crusoe uses...

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