Seeking Robinson Crusoe - Hardcover

Severin, Timothy

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ISBN 10: 0333905555 ISBN 13: 9780333905555

Publisher: Macmillan, 2002

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Seeking Robinson Crusoe explores the legend behind Daniel Defoes classic novel, positing possible places where this famous literary character could have been marooned. The past is brought to life by this epic adventure full of wit and erudition. Furthermore it re-examines and explodes some enduring myths about the claim that Crusoe was based on a real-life castaway, Alexander Selkirk. Effortlessly describing the tropical locales and the practicalities of island life, Tim Severin entwines the fictional and the factual, taking the reader on a voyage of unusual discovery.

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Tim Severin, explorer, film-maker and lecturer, has made many expedition from his crossing of the Atlantic in a medieval leather boat in The Brendan Voyage to, most recently, In Search of Moby Dick and Robinson Crusoe. He has won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Book of the Sea Award, a Christopher Prize, and the literary medal of the Academie de la Marine. In 2005 he turned to fiction with the Viking series of ancient historical novels, of which Viking: Odinn's Child is the first.

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