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Alexander Selkirk, the Scottish inspiration for Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, was stranded from September 1704 to 2 February 1709 on one of the Juan Fernández islands off the coast of Chile.
Erling Kagge • Walking: One Step at a Time
Post Cards from America: X-rays from Hell
Sidonius Apollinaris, a Gallic diplomat, poet and inveterate correspondent in the mid-to-late fifth century, wrote to his friend, a naval commander called Admiral Namatius: I whiled away some time talking with [the courier] about you; and he was very positive that you had weighed anchor, and in fulfilment of those half military, half naval duties o
... See moreMax Adams • The First Kingdom
The mightiest kings have had their minions: Great Alexander loved Hephaestion; The conquering Hercules for Hylas wept; And for Patroclus stern Achilles drooped.
Christopher Marlowe • Edward II Revised (New Mermaids)
ambitious young man of thirty-seven with a high forehead, thick,