Alexander Selkirk--the sailor whose true story inspired Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel, Robinson Crusoe--was abandoned on a desert island.
You're stranded on a desert island with nary a chilled Voss in sight.
In this case they were trapped on a desert island, and could earn their survival by fulfilling tough outdoor challenges.
MaMaMedia recently polled 9, 000 children about what they would most want to bring on a month-long trip to a desert island.
In Cast Away, Hanks plays the boss at a Federal Express office in Moscow who ends up stranded on a desert island.
Mr Edwards has the means to disappear, they say: call in the last of his chits and escape to a desert island.
In the movie Madonna played a rich-bitch socialite who is stranded on a desert island with a communist sailor, who sets about humiliating her, before the pair fall in love.
"I was always one of these kids who had the smart back-answer in school - a right hard-faced, cheeky young man, " he told Roy Plomley on a 1972 edition of Desert Island Discs.
It's a succulent oasis on 3 acres that uses very little water, a surprisingly exotic island of sculptural desert plants surrounded by suburbia.
Assuming the proverbial desert island with just a few inhabitants, if suddenly a great deal of money were to fall from the sky, no real wealth or economic growth will have been achieved for the arrival of the money that on its own is not wealth.
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At that, all of Alcina's powers are broken, the temple collapses, and her lush island is transformed into a barren desert.
French was a guest on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs last December, where she spoke on the programme about the end of her marriage to Henry.
He once told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs that his ultimate luxury would be a "stash of cigarettes".
This was followed by a three-year stint on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, where he was successor to the late Roy Plomley, who had created the castaway show.
In October 2010, he told Desert Island Discs his ultimate luxury if marooned would be a large supply of smokes.
The picture Mariner 9 painted of modern Mars was of a static desert, with none of the jostling of tectonic plates that makes life interesting for geologists by throwing up island chains and mountain ranges, and opening deep basins for oceans to form in.
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