The volcanic island of Robinson Crusoe, 670 kilometers (416 miles) west of Chile's mainland, was renamed in 1966 after the famous Daniel Defoe novel about a man left to survive on a remote island.

In time, Mr. Morandi became an island attraction of his own, often compared to the titular castaway of Daniel Defoe’s ...

Mysteriously, he is. Yet Ernest A. Baker concludes in The History of the English Novel (1929): “Knox might well have been the author of the Serious Reflections of Robinson Crusoe.” Ludowyk suggests it ...

I remember reading Robinson Crusoe for instance ... played a big role in using the historical novel to promote a heroic Scottish identity. Another Scottish influence was Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe.