Author: SEVERIN, TIM
Title: Seeking Robinson Crusoe
Description: London, Macmillan. 2002, First Edition. (ISBN: 0333905555). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. A Very Good+ copy with VG+ dustjacket which is price clipped. In search of the world's most famous castaway, the author travels where men were shipwrecked or abandoned in the days of pirates and buccaneers and lived to tell the tale. A Scottish sailor, Alexander Selkirk, has long been considered the inspiration for Daniel Defoe's story, so Severin heads for the island of Juan Fernandez, 400 miles off the coast of Chile, where Selkirk was marooned for four years. He also visits other remote islands and tells of other stranded sailors and combines a travelogue with brilliant literary detective work. 14 illustrations. NOT EX LIB D4A. Very Good/Very Good.

Keywords: Alexander Selkirk, Miskito Indians, Island of Juan Fernandez, Lionel Wafer, Henry Pitman, Kuna Tribe, Salt Tortuga 0333905555


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