Alexander Selkirk - The Real Cast Away | Biographical Documentary
The movie Cast Away (2000), as well as being a great story, has an important message for anyone faced with adversity – of not giving into despair, whatever life throws at you, and of taking each day as it comes and waiting for things to get better.
The movie is a work of fiction but the story bears a close resemblance to a real life historical castaway - Alexander Selkirk - a 28-year-old Scotsman who spent four years on an uninhabited island in the Pacific in the eighteenth century before being rescued.
This historical documentary traces Selkirk’s colourful life and describes how he coped with his ordeal, and how his tale was used by later writers to create their own survival stories, including Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe.
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Many of the details about Selkirk’s life have been lost, but what is known has been pieced together into two books, that I have included in my Amazon Store. Robert Kraske’s Marooned: The Strange But True Adventures of Alexander Selkirk from 2005 and Rick Wilson’s The Man Who Was Robinson Crusoe: A Personal View of Alexander Selkirk from 2009. https://www.amazon.com/shop/professor...
Academic References:
Fausett, D. (1994). The Strange Surprizing Sources of Robinson Crusoe. Rodopi, Amsterdam.
Sandal, G. M., Leon, G. R., & Palinkas, L. (2007). Human challenges in polar and space environments. Life in extreme environments, 399-414.
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Music:
The skye boat song/llansteffan - A track by Elinor Bennett/meinir Heulyn. From the 1989 album Alawon Poblogaidd Ar Ddwy Delyn/popular Melodies CC3.0
"Modern Music" from Psalm Singer's Amusement by William Billings (1781) Public domain
Thin places Jesse Gallagher CC0
Yonder Hill and Dale Aaron Kenny CC0
Godmode On the island
Handel: Water Music: United States Marine Band, Marine Chamber Orchestra. Public domain
Mike Cole Music Outrigger CC4.0
Arabian Nightfall Doug Maxwell CC0
Video edited by Manavi Sakunika and produced by Professor Graeme Yorston and Tom Yorston.
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