The real Robinson Crusoe : being the life and strange surprising adventures of Alexander Selkirk ofLargo, Fife, mariner
Mégroz, R. L. (Rodolphe Louis)1939
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Alexander Selkirk was born in 1676 and died in 1721. He was son of a showmaker and tanner in Lower Largo, Fife. In his youth, he displayed a quarrelsome and unruly disposition. He was summoned before the Kirk Session in August 1693 for his indecent conduct in church but he did not appear, being gone to sea. He was back at Largo in 1701, when he again came to the attention of church authorities for beating up his brothers. Scottish Privateer and Royal Navy Officer he spent more than four years as a castaway after being marooned by his captain on an uninhabited island in the South Pacific Ocean. He survived that ordeal, but succumbed to tropical illness a dozen years later while serving aboard HMS Weymouth off West Africa.
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Imprint:
London : Cresset Press, [1939]
Collation:
243p : ill. ; 22 cm.
Dewey class:
920SEL920
Local class:
LR920SELB/SEL
Language:
English
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BRN:
3425101