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On the urging of a cave diver she knew, Ange Mlinko read Friday (1967), the revisionist Robinson Crusoe tale by Michel ...
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Italian 'Robinson Crusoe' who lived alone on island for 32 years dies
A man known as Italy's Robinson Crusoe who lived alone on an idyllic island for 32 years following a shipwreck has died. Mauro Morandi, who died on January 3 aged 85, lived as a hermit on the Isle ...
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Was Robert Knox the real Robinson Crusoe?
Even a specific book on the subject, Tim Severin’s Seeking Robinson Crusoe (2002), ignores Knox. Instead, Severin believes the source was a surgeon, Henry Pitman, who wrote a short book, A Relation of ...
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Mauro Morandi, ‘Robinson Crusoe’ of remote Italian island, dies at 85
In time, Mr. Morandi became an island attraction of his own, often compared to the titular castaway of Daniel Defoe’s 18th-century novel “Robinson Crusoe ... of the book “The Guardian ...
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Italian man who lived alone on an island for 32 years dies three years after returning to urban life
Mauro Morandi, famously nicknamed "Robinson Crusoe" for his solitary life on the remote Budelli Island in the Mediterranean, has died at the age of 85. Morandi’s remarkable story of self ...