~ The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, by Daniel Defoe
So Robinson Crusoe first learns where he is, and where, mercifully unbeknownst to him at this point, he is to remain for the next 28 years. His story is loosely based on the real-life adventures of one Alexander Selkirk, a castaway who lived on one of the Juan Fernandez Islands for almost four and a half years. Now, two of the islands are named after these men, one real, one fictional (story and video): http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19562787
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Islands in Time
"I took out one of the
fowling-pieces, and one of the pistols, and a horn of powder; and
thus armed, I travelled for discovery up to the top of that hill,
where, after I had with great labour and difficulty got to the
top, I saw my fate, to my great affliction—viz. that I was
in an island environed every way with the sea: no land to be seen
except some rocks, which lay a great way off; and two small
islands, less than this, which lay about three leagues to the
west."
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