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"This book seeks to discover the actual man and adventures behind the remarkable life of Scottish sailor Alexander Selkirk (1676-1721), the "real-life Robinson Crusoe" who inspired Daniel Defoe's classic novel of a castaway's ordeal and survival.".

"Daisuke Takahashi, a world traveler and Elected Fellow of both the Explorers Club in New York and the Royal Geographical Society in London, spent seven years searching for the truth behind the legend. His journey ranged from the village of Lower Largo in Scotland, where Selkirk was raised, to Robinson Crusoe Island (four hundred miles off the coast of Chile), a largely uninhabitable islet where Selkirk was stranded from 1704 to 1709.".

"Based not only on contemporary diaries, letters, and memoirs but also on Takahashi's own research, this work brings to life Selkirk's extraordinary ordeal. Equal parts history, detective story, travel writing, and true adventure tale, In Search of Robinson Crusoe removes encrusted myths to reveal a man whose adventures surpassed those of Defoe's fictional creation."--BOOK JACKET.

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Cooper Square Press, Distributed by National Book Network
Language
English
Pages
229

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Subjects
Sources, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Travel, Crusoe, robinson (fictitious character), Survival, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc., Shipwreck survival
People
Alexander Selkirk (1676-1721), Daisuke Takahashi (1966-), Daniel Defoe (1661?-1731)
Places
Juan Fernández Islands

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2002, Cooper Square Press, Distributed by National Book Network
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Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.
"A Japanese edition without the postscript and eighth chapter and with fifteen fewer photographs was published by Shinchosha in Tokyo in 1999"--T.p. verso.

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New York, [Lanham, Md.]
Genre
Sources.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
996.1/8
Library of Congress
G530.S42 T3513 2002, G530.S42T3513 2002

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 229 p., [16] p. of plates :
Number of pages
229

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL3553026M
Internet Archive
insearchofrobins00taka
ISBN 10
0815412002
LCCN
2002004433
OCLC/WorldCat
49421576
Library Thing
9596410
Goodreads
243187

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