| Description |
1 online resource (273 p.) |
| Note |
Description based upon print version of record. |
| Contents |
Cover Page; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Epigraph; One: The Island; Two: The Journey; Three: The Arrival; Four: The Rescue; Five: London Scribblers; Six: Home; Seven: The Island; Endnotes; Index; Acknowledgments; About the Author; Copyright Page |
| Summary |
Winner of the 2001 Whitbread Biography Award:Diana Souhami's gripping true story of the man and the island that inspired Robinson Crusoe This action-filled biography follows Alexander Selkirk, an eighteenth-century Scottish buccaneer who sailed the South Seas plundering for gold. But an ill-fated expedition in 1703 led to shipwreck on remote Juan Fernández Island off the coast of Chile. Selkirk, the ship's master, was accused of inciting mutiny and abandoned on the uninhabited island with nothing but his clothing, his pistol, a knife, and a Bible. Each day he searched the sea for a ship that. |
| Subject |
HISTORY / Expeditions & Discoveries
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Selkirk, Alexander, 1676-1721.
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Shipwreck survival -- Juan Fernández Islands.
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| Genre |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Freading.
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| Related To |
Print version: Souhami, Diana Selkirk's Island : The True and Strange Adventures of the Real Robinson Crusoe Newburyport : Open Road Media,c2014 |
| ISBN |
9781497683747 electronic bk. |
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1497683742 electronic bk. |
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