Salé is a city in northwestern Morocco, on the right bank of the Bou Regreg river, opposite the national capital Rabat, for which it serves as a commuter town. Along with some smaller nearby towns, Ra
Great Mosque of Salé, located within the historic medina
The gate of Bab el-Mrisa, dating to the 1270s during the early Marinid period of the city
Robinson Crusoe is an English adventure novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. It is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a literary genre, and has been de
Salé
…film Black Hawk Down was partially filmed in Salé, in particular the wide angle aerial shots with helicopters flying down the coastline. The character Robinson Crusoe, in the early part of Daniel Defoe's novel by the same name, spends time in captivity of the local pirates, the Salé Rovers, and at last sails off to…
Title page from the first edition
The route taken by Robinson Crusoe over the Pyrenees mountains in chapters 19 and 20 of Defoe's novel, as envisaged by Joseph Ribas [fr]
Statue of Robinson Crusoe at Alexander Selkirk's birthplace of Lower Largo in Scotland, by Thomas Stuart Burnett
Book on Alexander Selkirk