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	Alexander Selkirk - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alexander Selkirk, born Alexander Selcraig, (1676–December 13, 1721) was a sailor who spent 4 years as a castaway on an uninhabited island; he is supposed to be the prototype of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
		Selkirk initially stayed on the beach, fearing strange inland sounds he assumed to be dangerous beasts.
		Selkirk made extraordinary use of the equipment he took from the ship and, later, that which he made from island materials.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alexander_Selkirk (821 words)

	AllRefer.com - Alexander Selkirk (English Literature, 1500 To 1799, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Alexander Selkirk, English Literature, 1500 To 1799, Biographies
		Alexander Selkirk[sel´kurk] Pronunciation Key, 1676–1721, Scottish sailor whose adventures suggested to Daniel Defoe the story of Robinson Crusoe (1719).
		In 1704, as a sailing master, Selkirk quarreled with the captain of his ship in the Juan FernAndez islands and asked to be put ashore.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/S/SelkirkA.html (221 words)

	Alexander Selkirk: the real Robinson Crusoe
		Defoe based his character on the adventures of Alexander Selkirk, whom at the age of thirty voluntarily stranded himself on a small island in the Pacific Ocean for four years.
		Alexander Selkirk was born in Largo, Fife, E. Scotland in 1676.
		Alexander, however, was a precocious and active child, not given to a calm uneventful life.
	wy.essortment.com /alexanderselkir_rehj.htm (1360 words)

	Alexander Selkirk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alexander Selkirk (1676-1721) was born a seventh son and superstition decreed that he turn out to be special.
		Alexander was born in Lower Largo, Fife, Scotland, in 1676.
		Selkirk subsequently continued his career as a sailor, and at the time of his death he was master's mate on the English man-of-war Weymouth.
	www.webscot.co.uk /greatscots/alexanderselkirk.htm (291 words)

	Alexander Selkirk - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The son of a shoemaker and tanner in Lower Largo, Fife, he was born in 1676.
		At this point, Selkirk had grave concerns about the seaworthiness of his vessel (the Cinque Ports, incidentally, did later sink, losing most hands) and opted to stay ashore, banking on an impending visit by another galley.
		He chased and called after his boat to no avail; Selkirk would spend a solitary residence of four years and four months on Juan Fernandez.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /alexander_selkirk.htm (833 words)

	Alexander Selkirk: part 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Selkirk was a hot blooded Scot sailing aboard a privateer in the Pacific that was engaged, along with other ships, in raiding Spanish shipping and ports for whatever loot they could seize.
		Selkirk, however, always dreamed of rescue and daily visited his "lookout" in search of the sight of a sail, and frequently lit fires for distant ships to see but it was several years before any ships put into Cumberland Bay.
		It would seem that Alexander Selkirk's life of adventure, or misadventure, might have ended here with a Joyous return to England, greetings from a loving family who had given him up for dead, the plaudits of writers and explorers and a life of retirement and ease.
	www.ini.unizh.ch /~tobi/alex/alex2.html (2315 words)

	ALEXANDER SELKIRK (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alexander Selkirk (of Selcraig), (1676-1723) was een zeeman die 4 jaar op een onbewoond eiland doorbracht.
		Rogers was de kapitein van een prive schip met rechten om de vijand aan te vallen, en maakte Selkirk zijn maat.
		In 1717 trouwde Selkirk in het geheim en ging daarna weer naar zee.
	www.thumpershollow.com /encyclopedia/A/Alexander_Selkirk (261 words)

	ALEXANDER SELKIRK (or SELCRAIG) - LoveToKnow Article on ALEXANDER SELKIRK (or SELCRAIG) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Selkirk returned to the Thames on the 14th of October 1711; he was back at Largo in 1712, in 1717 we find him again at sea, and in 1721 he died as masters mate of H.M.S. Weymouth (December 12th).
		While this is clearly indebted in its main outlines to Selkirks story, most of its incidents are, of course, fairly independent of the latter; thus the decidedly tropical description of Crusoes island and the whole narrative of the cannibals visits, andc., agree rather with one of the West Indies than with Juan Fernandez.
		It bears the following inscription: In memory of Alexander Selkirk, mariner, a native of Largo in the county of Fife, Scotland, who was on this island in complete solitude for four years and four months.
	99.1911encyclopedia.org /S/SE/SELKIRK_or_SELCRAIG_ALEXANDER.htm (452 words)

	BBC - History - Scottish History
		Selkirk had spent four years and four months of isolation on the island, yet seemed stable when he was found.
		Selkirk re-embarked on his career as a privateer and within a year he was master of the ship that rescued him.
		Selkirk, however, could never really readjust to life on the land, and, in 1720, a year after he was immortalised by Defoe, he joined the Royal Navy only to die of fever off the coast of Africa.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/scottishhistory/europe/oddities_europe.shtml (572 words)

	Andrew Selkirk, The Real Robinson Crusoe
		Alexander was the seventh son of the local shoemaker John Selkirk and the young lad had a fiery temper which often landed him in trouble.
		Alexander Selkirk was by now a first class navigator and was appointed sailing master on the ninety ton vessel "Cinque Ports" which had sixteen guns and a crew of sixty three.
		Alexander Selkirk was a weird sight as he was completely dressed in goat skins which had replaced his tattered clothes.
	www.fife.50megs.com /robinson-crusoe.htm (918 words)

	Alexander Selkirk
		SELKIRK, or SEALCHRAIG, Alexander, Scottish mariner, born in Largo, Fifeshire, Scotland, in 1676; died at sea in 1723.
		Selkirk had built two huts, the roofing being long grass, and the wainscoting the skins of goats.
		Selkirk returned to Largo, eloped with a girl, married her, and brought her to London.
	www.famousamericans.net /alexanderselkirk (898 words)

	Alexander Selkirk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alexander Selkirk (or Selcraig) (1676 - 1723) was a sailor who spent 4 as a castaway on an uninhabited island; is supposed to be the prototype of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
		Selkirk initially stayed on the beach fearing inland sounds he assumed to be dangerous During this period he camped in a cave consumed shellfish for nutrition surveyed the ocean each for a possible rescue and suffered from loneliness depression and regret.
		Selkirk made extraordinary use of the equipment took from the ship and later that he made from island materials.
	www.freeglossary.com /Alexander_Selkirk (894 words)

	John Harrison: Where the Earth Ends: Alexander Selkirk
		Alexander Selkirk was the seventh child and the seventh son of a tanner and shoemaker in the village of Lower Largo in the Kingdom of Fife, Scotland.
		Selkirk exploded, telling him the boat was rotten and if the repairs were not completed it would sink, as it had in his dream.
		To back his point, Selkirk demanded to be set ashore with his belongings, calling on the rest of the crew to repeat their rebellion.
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		Selkirk takes his gun, his gourd; but, unable to carry all his riches, he conceals them behind a stony thicket, well defended by the darts of the cactus, and the sword-like leaves of the aloe, not caring to have the first comer seize them as his booty.
		Selkirk is not so easily discouraged; this cat he must have, he must have her alive; he wishes to make her the guardian of his cabin, his protector against the rats.
		Selkirk, as the master of the house, and chief of the family, generously distributed the provisions to his young and frolicksome republic, and Marimonda assisted him as well as she could, in doing the honors.
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	Alexander Selkirk - netlexikon
		Alexander Selkirk (oder Selcraig) (* 1676 in Lower Largo, Fife, Schottland; † 1723), ein schottischer Seefahrer und Abenteurer gilt gemeinhin als Vorbild für Daniel Defoes Figur Robinson Crusoe aus dem gleichnamigen Roman.
		Selkirk wächst als jüngster Sohn eines schottischen Schuhmachers und Gerberei-Besitzers auf.
		Selkirk versuchte, Schiffskameraden zum Verbleib auf der Insel zu überreden, da er befürchtete, das Schiff könnte sinken.
	www.lexikon-definition.de /Alexander-Selkirk.html (958 words)

	MSN Encarta - Alexander Selkirk
		Selkirk, Alexander (1676-1721), Scottish sailor, born in Largo in the Fife region.
		While the expedition was near the Juan Fernández Islands, off the coast of Chile, Selkirk had a dispute with the captain of his ship.
		Selkirk subsequently continued his career as a sailor, and at the time of his death he was master's mate on the British man-of-war Weymouth.
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761571098/Selkirk_Alexander.html (196 words)

	Encyclopedia: Alexander Selkirk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Cinque Ports is the name of an English Government galleon (96 tons, 16 guns, 63 men) whose sailing master was Alexander Selkirk and captain was Thomas Stradling.
		An archipelago is a landform which consists of a chain or cluster of islands.
		The town of San Juan Bautista in Cumberland Bay, Robinson Crusoe Island Map of Isla MÃ¡s Afuera / Selkirk Map of Isla MÃ¡s a Tierra / Crusoe Orthographic projection centred over Juan Fernandez The Juan FernÃ¡ndez Islands is a sparsely inhabited island group in the South Pacific Ocean, situated...
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Alexander-Selkirk (2350 words)

	Alexander Selkirk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Alexander Selkirk (or Selcraig), (1676 - 1723) was a sailor who spent 4 years as a castaway on an uninhabited island; he is supposed to be the prototype of Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.
		After a solitary residence offour years and four months there, he was taken off by Captain Woods Rogers on February 2, 1709.
		Rogers was commander of aprivateer and made Selkirk his mate and afterwards gave him the independent command of one of his prizes.
	www.therfcc.org /alexander-selkirk-92191.html (308 words)

	The Real Robinson Crusoe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Three centuries ago an impetuous Scottish sailor known as Alexander Selkirk was languishing off the coast of Chile in a battle-scarred, worm-eaten British ship called the Cinque Ports when he began to argue with the captain that the leaky, disease-ridden vessel was a deathtrap.
		Selkirk, a skilled navigator, and the ship's sickened crew were privateers—in effect, legalized pirates for the British Crown—who had spent a year at sea off South America robbing Spanish ships and coastal villages.
		Selkirk demanded that his 21-year-old captain, Lt. Thomas Stradling, whom he regarded as arrogant, leave him on the largest island, a wish that Stradling was only too happy to oblige.
	www.smithsonianmag.si.edu /smithsonian/issues05/jul05/crusoe.html (349 words)

	Woodes Rogers
		Alexander Selkirk of Largo, Scotland, had run away to sea in 1695.
		In September of 1704, after a quarrel with his Captain, the hotheaded Selkirk requested that he be put ashore on the uninhabited island of Juan Fernandez, four hundred miles west of Valparaiso, Chile.
		Selkirk finally returned home to Scotland where he lived the life of a recluse, later returning to sea once more.
	home.earthlink.net /~artrogers/Woodes.htm (1595 words)

	Pirates & Privateers: the History of Maritime Piracy - Alexander Selkirk, the Real Robinson Crusoe
		Alexander Selkirk, the seventh son of a Scottish shoemaker, possessed a keen mind and a nasty temper, which eventually resulted in a summons before church elders in Fife for indecent behavior.
		Selkirk hated and distrusted the man. They nearly came to blows at least once, but William Dampier, who had led the expedition before he and Stradling had a falling out, intervened before the crew mutinied.
		He sent Selkirk ashore with his belongings — sea chest, musket, navigational instruments and charts, cooking pot, Bible, flask of rum, tobacco — and enough quince marmalade and cheese to provide a day’s worth of sustenance.
	www.cindyvallar.com /selkirk.html (2556 words)

	Buchan, Alexander -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		English author Alexander Harris is known for his Settlers and Convicts; or, Recollections of Sixteen Years' Labour in the Australian Backwoods, an outstanding fictional account of life in Australia.
		Covers Alexander's reign, the battles of Granicus and Issus, the end of the Persian Empire, and Phillip II of Macedonia.
		Alexander the Great was able to conquer a large area in a remarkably short period of time.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9017862?tocId=9017862 (814 words)

	An Inaugural Sale and the Passing of an Old Family Business; Maine Antique Digest, October 1998 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The first specific reference in the registries to the name Selkirk as an auctioneer per se occurs in 1884 with an Alexander A. Selkirk identified with the firm Haggerty and Dewes, 411 N. Broadway Street.
		Of course this man was not a Selkirk, but he would have been a direct blood ancestor in the Selkirk line that culminates with Bruce B. Jr.
		I surmise, circumstantially, that this might be the grandfather mentioned by Alexander Selkirk Jr.
	www.maineantiquedigest.com /articles/selk1098.htm (1591 words)

	Alexander Selkirk
		Selkirk's experience was not unique; there were numerous stories of solitary castaways who survived for years before being rescued.
		Captain Cooke sailed with the expedition which rescued Alexander Selkirk from Juan Fernandez Island; his brief reference, in 1712, is the first published account of the rescue.
		The Person I speak of is Alexander Selkirk, whose Name is familiar to Men of Curiosity, from the Fame of his having lived four years and four Months alone in the Island of Juan Fernandez.
	academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu /english/melani/novel_18c/defoe/selkirk.html (3191 words)

	Amazon.com: Books: Selkirk's Island: The True and Strange Adventures of the Real Robinson Crusoe (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Selkirk was stranded on the desert isle as punishment for mutinous behavior.
		Alexander Selkirk was not a nice guy and he travelled in the company of others who were also not nice guys.
		Selkirk was of an age when people knew how to do things with their hands, they had to in order to survive.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0151005265?v=glance (2497 words)

	Daniel Defoe - Free Online Library
		William Selkirk was the son of a Scottish tanner, who became the master of the Cinque Ports Galley, a privateering ship.
		Selkirk went to sea in 1704 under William Dampier and was put ashore at his own request - or, according to some sources, as a punishment of insubordination - on the island of Juan Fernandez in the Pacific, hundreds of miles off the coast of Chile.
		Selkirk claimed that he had become a "better Christian" and it was a positive experience.
	defoe.thefreelibrary.com (1462 words)

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