The Wall
A movie for every day of the year â a good one 1 February Alexander Selkirk rescued, 1709 On this day in 1709, a Scottish sailor named either Alexander Selkirk or Selcraig was rescued from an island in the South Pacific. But the model for Daniel Defoeâs 1719 novel Robinson Crusoe wasnât the victim of a shipwreck. In fact heâd asked the captain of the privateer (ie pirate) ship he was sailing on, the Cinque Ports, to leave him on the uninhabited island known as MĂĄs a Tierra in the Juan FernĂĄndez archipelago about 700km off the coast of Chile. Known since his youth as a quarrelsome sort, Selkirk had been loudly protesting … Read more