By Robert Kraske
Selkirk’s well-documented adventures so encouraged Daniel Defoe that they grew to become the foundation for his perennial vintage, Robinson Crusoe. In an account that's every piece as attention-grabbing as Defoe’s novel, Robert Kraske offers shiny descriptions of Selkirk’s days at the island and aboard send, together with information of the violent, bloody, and legally sanctioned pirating that went on within the early 18th century. Author’s word, word list, bibliography, index.
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