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Nature & Animals influenced Robinson Crusoe
Added by Media Influence Map · 30 September 2026
- Islands
- Wilderness survival
The evidence
Defoe drew on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, marooned for four years on a Pacific island, for a novel whose substance is survival: shelter, crops, goats and a castaway learning to live from the island.
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