* Will ( Indian ) ( 17th century ), a Misquito castaway, possibly the model for Friday in Robinson Crusoe

The book Desert Island proposed the highly detailed theory that Daniel Defoe used the Isla dell Cocoze as an accurate model for his descriptions of the island inhabited by the marooned Robinson Crusoe.

* December 12-Alexander Selkirk, the model for Robinson Crusoe ( born 1676 )

Crusoe saw a painted clay model on May 18, 1953, which corresponded closely to the final car ; he gave the car the go-ahead in September after comparing it with current European trends.

The computer shipped with Windows XP installed ( Home Edition or Professional, but the Tablet PC Edition was not available until the model 01 + was released ) and featured a 1 GHz Transmeta Crusoe processor, 20 GB hard drive, and 256 MB of RAM.

Early critics, such as Robert Louis Stevenson admired it saying that the footprint scene in Crusoe was one of the four greatest in English literature and most unforgettable ; more prosaically, Dr. Wesley Vernon has seen the origins of forensic podiatry in this episode.

Crusoe departs for Lisbon to reclaim the profits of his estate in Brazil, which has granted him much wealth.

It has even been speculated that God the Guide of Youth inspired Robinson Crusoe because of a number of passages in that work that are closely tied to the novel.

The classical treatment of the Crusoe economy has been discussed and criticised from a variety of perspectives.

In Wilkie Collins's most popular novel, The Moonstone, one of the chief characters and narrators, Gabriel Betteredge has faith in all that Robinson Crusoe says and uses the book for a sort of divination.

No longer a cultural supremacist, Crusoe remembers Friday, who has since died, with deep nostalgia and affection.

In Episode 23 of " Peabody's Improbable History ", Mr. Peabody and Sherman visit Crusoe on his island, which is not only not uninhabited as it is in the story, but has been overrun by commercialism and the tourist industry.

It was so well-written that one critic wrote, " Robinson Crusoe has turned missionary, lived years in Mongolia, and wrote a book about it.

The island of Tobago has been considered the island that inspired the story Robinson Crusoe.

For example, Efficeon — a second-generation Transmeta design — has a 256-bit-wide VLIW core versus the 128-bit core of the Crusoe.

The English novel has generally been seen as beginning with Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe ( 1719 ) and Moll Flanders ( 1722 ), though John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress ( 1678 )

Friday tolerates cannibalism, and even suggests eating the men Crusoe has killed.

Tradition has it that Daniel Defoe met Alexander Selkirk, his inspiration for Robinson Crusoe, here, and it was Robert Louis Stevenson ’ s inspiration for the Admiral Benbow in Treasure Island.

Robinson Crusoe has an estimated population for 2011 of 859 ( 525 men, 334 women ) living in the village of San Juan Bautista.

Dakin currently writes children's books, develops and writes Children's television shows for the BBC and has a regular strip, Robot Crusoe, in The Sunday Times

An ancient fishing village, Lower Largo has gained fame as the 1676 birthplace of Alexander Selkirk, the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe.

* For historical examples, see " Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe & the Robinsonades Digital Collection " which has an overview of the genre along with over 200 versions of Robinson Crusoe and historical robinsonades openly and freely online with full text and zoomable page images from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature

He illustrated over 500 books ( including natural history subjects and numerous classic novels such as Robinson Crusoe, Tarzan, Plutonia ) and some 600 book covers, but it is within the fields of palaeontology and palaeoanthropology that Burian's influence has been most notable.

Within six months Friday has learned the basics of English, but when Crusoe attempts to convert him to Christianity, Friday refuses and an argument ensues.

A typhoon arrives while Crusoe has nearly finished his boat.

In the film, Crusoe is wounded by Friday's enemies and Friday takes him to his own island to be healed, but Friday's tribe has disowned him, and force Crusoe and Friday to fight to the death after saying they will allow the winner to go free.

As a writer, editor and translator Mansur has been variously involved in a number of publications over a 35 year period ranging from an English – Papiamentu dictionary to a History of Aruba to fascinating psychological historical romance and fiction to Aruban republications and Papiamento translations of classics of English and world literature such as Daniel Defoes Robinson Crusoe, Hans Chrisstian Andersen and Alexandre Dumas.

Easter Island and Juan Fernández Archipelago, including Robinson Crusoe Island, are also major attractions.

Remi also immersed himself in literature, in particular enjoying the novels of British and American authors, such as Huckleberry Finn, Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe and The Pickwick Papers.

* Robinson Crusoe, () ( also known as Isla Más a Tierra ), located closest to the mainland of continental South America, and its surrounding islets:

The idealised master-servant relationship Defoe depicts between Crusoe and Friday can also be seen in terms of cultural imperialism.

The 2000 film Cast Away, with Tom Hanks as a FedEx employee stranded on an Island for many years, also borrows much from the Robinson Crusoe story.

These translations later inspired Daniel Defoe to write Robinson Crusoe, which also featured a desert island narrative and was regarded as the first novel in English.

Under the pseudonym Mary Godolphin, Lucy Aikin is also attributed for producing versions of: Pilgrim's Progress, Robinson Crusoe, Swiss Family Robinson, Aesop's Fables, Evenings at Home, and Sandford and Merton, " in Words of One Syllable ".

These translations later inspired Daniel Defoe to write Robinson Crusoe, which also featured a desert island narrative and was regarded as the first novel in English.

It was first recorded in 1307 and also mentioned by Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe, in his 1727 book ' A Tour Of Great Brittain '.

Towards the end of his life Baker pulled back on his business activities and worked mostly as an actor, taking roles in television including the 1974 BBC Play of the Month The Changeling, Robinson Crusoe ( 1974 ), and also in a BBC Wales adaptation of How Green Was My Valley ( 1975 ).

Wild also played the main theme of the TV Show, ' Robinson Crusoe ', exclusively at their concerts.

Crusoe also frees the captain's corgi Skipper from a supply room.

Once they arrive Crusoe lights a fuse leading to a load of gunpowder, but Skipper chases after the lit fuse and also dies in the explosion.

Higgins also wrote the science fiction film Robinson Crusoe on Mars ( 1964 ) and the adventure film Impasse ( 1969 ).