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S'està carregant… Selkirk's Island: The True and Strange Adventures of the Real Robinson Crusoe (2001)de Diana Souhami
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Apunta't a LibraryThing per saber si aquest llibre et pot agradar. No hi ha cap discussió a Converses sobre aquesta obra. Remarkable historical account of alexander Selkirk, the prototype for Defoe's Robinson Crusoe - the true story of how he survived being marooned for 52 months, is an impressive work and an astonishing true story. The author places the facts in the contest of the age - 300 years ago, making the very best of the necessarily sparse source material, to weave a believable and highly enjoyable story line. Selkirk was a flawed character for sure, prone to violence, but he displayed an outstanding survival instinct in the face of a daunting challenge - managing to thrive in the wild rather than succumbing to the pressures and stress of his situation. ( ) This was very interesting, and fairly amusing in parts. Alexander Selkirk was marooned off the coast of Chile in 1704 and spent nearly four and a half years alone on an uninhabited island. This book tells his life story and also includes details of his contemporaries in the world of privateering. Obviously, there is a limit to how much can be written about a man marooned in isolation, so this period of Selkirk's life is covered in probably less than a third of the book. Although the novel Robinson Crusoe is based on what happened to Selkirk, they share little in common apart from being alone in the middle of the ocean. The vast majority of the book tells of the disasterous voyages made by groups of men in the early 18th century, sailing the southern seas, searching for Spanish merchant ships to plunder. Mutiny, drunkeness and scurvy are recurring themes and I found it to be a very readable, well referenced historic account. Sense ressenyes | afegeix-hi una ressenya
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Winner of the Whitbread Biography Award: The true story of the shipwrecked Scottish buccaneer who inspired Daniel Defoe's novel. 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 would rescue him and prayed for help that seemed never to come. In solitude and silence Selkirk gradually learned to adapt. He killed seals and goats for food and used their skin for clothing. He learned how to build a house, forage for food, create stores, plant seeds, light a fire, and tame cats. Then one day, a ship with wooden sails appeared on the horizon. The crew was greeted by a bearded savage, incoherent and fierce. Selkirk had been marooned for four years and four months. Now he was about to return to the world of men. The story of a verdant, mysterious archipelago and its famous castaway is both a parable about nature and a remarkable account of the survival of a man cut off from civilization. No s'han trobat descripcions de biblioteca. |
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