Mauro Morandi, a man who made an art of living off the grid on a deserted Mediterranean island for more than 30 years has died at the age of 85, just three years after he returned to civilization.

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.

Famously known as 'Robinson Crusoe' for his solitary life on a secluded Mediterranean island, Budelli, Italian man Mauro Morandi died at the age of 85, CNN reported. Though Morandi lived a ...

An echo and a reimagining of Daniel Dafoe’s 1719 novel “Robinson Crusoe,” the first “Swiss ... while stranded on a highly idealized desert island.” Wyss and subsequent writers who ...