Daniel Defoe published his book Robinson Crusoe in 1719, at a time when stories of shipwrecks, pi...  ...ate Alexander Selkirk as the main inspiration for Robinson Crusoe . But that’s not the whole story. According...  ...e for 20 years (closer to the amount of time that Crusoe...

For many of us, moving to our own private tropical island of paradise is a fantasy, but not for Brendon Grimshaw. In 1962, bought an island in the Indian Ocean for £8,000 and replanted it with 1...