Alexander Selkirk: Who was the real Robinson Crusoe?
Stuff You Missed in History Class
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4.2 • 24.1K Ratings
🗓️ 13 April 2011
⏱️ 28 minutes
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| 0:30.7 | Welcome to Stuff You Missed in History Class from HouseofWorks.com. |
| 0:35.7 | Hello and welcome to the podcast. |
| 0:44.7 | I'm Deblinga Charcabority, and I'm Faraday. |
| 0:46.7 | And even if you haven't read Daniel Defoe's novel, Robinson Crusoe, |
| 0:51.2 | you've probably at least heard of its main character, |
| 0:53.7 | also called Robinson Crusoe, and he said to be one of the best-known characters in world literature. |
| 0:59.7 | The story, of course, is about the adventures of an English seamen |
| 1:03.7 | who gets shipwrecked on an uninhabited or seemingly uninhabited island for 28 years. |
| 1:09.7 | And it's kind of about the experiences that he has there, |
| 1:12.7 | making a home, fending off cannibals. |
| 1:15.7 | I mean, I read it. I think my sophomore year of college, |
| 1:18.7 | and I honestly do not remember much about it now, except that he spent the majority of his time worrying about being murdered by cannibals. |
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