Excerpt from New Robinson Crusoe The pious pirates circumnavigated the globe and finally brought their loot, including the Bachelor frigate, valued at pounds, safely back to England, where Alexander Selkirk received his share. He was thus able to live the life of a gen tleman and after a short visit to his old home in Largo, Fife County, Scotland, he married and went to London, where he lived some ten years. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.