Geldof's production company, Castaway Television, had claimed I'm A Celebrity... copied its show, Survivor.
He knows the histories of other wrecks and castaway crews, and why they fared better or worse.
The story of literature's most famous castaway sold well among Defoe's fellow Englishmen shortly after its debut.
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But Castaway has now withdrawn its claim for damages and an injunction, according to Granada, who make I'm A Celebrity...
Defoe fans frequently mention sailor Andrew Selkirk, an 18th-century castaway, as a model for Crusoe, although Defoe probably drew on several sources.
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Could this castaway be the catalyst for San Diego's offensive renaissance?
This strange suburb was an environment in which I would have to sustain myself, like a person lost in a jungle, like a castaway on an island.
The centerpiece of the novel is the journal that Crusoe keeps during his exile, an attempt to shape the confusion of castaway existence into a coherent story.
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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.
Then, in 1960, a notebook was found containing another Essex narrative, parallel with Owen Chase's, written by Thomas Nickerson, cabin boy on the ship and a crew member of Chase's castaway boat.
In fact, the cruise line's 1, 000-acre island private island, Castaway Cay, located between Grand Bahama Island and Great Abaco Island in the Bahamas, is a complete letdown, with little more than a few play areas, a sunken boat to snorkel around and three beaches to wade in.
In 1940, three years after her disappearance, the historic aircraft group's website states, a British official "found a partial skeleton of a castaway on a remote part of the island, " along with evidence of a "campfire, animal bones, a box that had once contained a sextant" and remnants of a man's and a woman's shoes.
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