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.
Mauro Da Budelli struggled to adjust to life in society after years of solitude. Mauro Morandi, the Italian man famously known as "Robinson Crusoe" for his solitary life on a secluded ...
By Elisabetta Povoledo Reporting from Rome Mauro Morandi, whose 32-year sojourn on an uninhabited Mediterranean island led to his being known as Italy’s Robinson Crusoe, died on Jan. 3 in Modena ...