DID DEFOE'S PUBLISHER KNOW A 'REAL' ROBINSON CRUSOE?
The bibliophile Edward Arber was the first commentator to draw attention to the marked similarity between Robinson Crusoe's means of escape from his island and the circumstances by which a group of maroons managed to leave the Caribbean island of Tortuga after being stranded there in 1687. Both Crus...
| Published in: | Notes & Queries Vol. 50; no. 2; pp. 201 - 203 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2003
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| Summary: | The bibliophile Edward Arber was the first commentator to draw attention to the marked similarity between Robinson Crusoe's means of escape from his island and the circumstances by which a group of maroons managed to leave the Caribbean island of Tortuga after being stranded there in 1687. Both Crusoe and the Tortuga maroons set an ambush for the mutinous crew of a ship which drops anchor off their island. The ambush succeeding, the islanders then take possession of the visiting ship for their own use, and sail away leaving the mutineers behind. |
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