Although they apparently never met in person, Daniel Defoe clearly patterned his novel after the real-life story of Alexander Selkirk, marooned in 1704 on the island of Aguas Buenas, since renamed Robinson Crusoe Island, for more than four years.
Read the full story for more on recent archaelogical finds on the island.
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