The inspiration for one of my favourite childhood novels was rescued on #ThisDayInHistory in 1709. Scottish sailor #AlexanderSelkirk spent more than four years living alone on an island in the #SouthPacific. His ordeal inspired #RobinsonCrusoe by #DanielDefoe, published in 1719.

Do you think #Trump has fantasies of being #AlexanderSelkirk?
"I AM monarch of all I survey,
My right there is none to dispute,
From the centre all round to the sea,
I am lord of the fowl & the brute..."
www.eighteenthcenturypoetry.org/works/o3794-...

#AlexanderSelkirk (el náufrago que inspiró el #RobinsonCrusoe de #DanielDefoe) era un escocés de orígenes gallegos, que en octubre de 1704 fué abandonado en el #PacíficoSur por el capitán del #CinquePorts, y rescatado 5 años después por el buque Duke https://buff.ly/42CHMLQ