Showing posts with label Daniel Defoe. Show all posts
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Monday, October 23, 2006

Robinson Crusoe

My interest in this particular book stems from a childhood visit to Lower Largo, in Fife, where I was shown a statue of Alexander Selkirk, and was told that he was the real Robinson Crusoe. In my mind I can clearly see the photograph I took that day, many years ago. I was looking up at the statue, a tall bearded man in old fashioned, torn clothes.