Seeking Robinson Crusoe

Author : Timothy Severin
Publisher : Pan
ISBN 13 : 9780330486774
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeking Robinson Crusoe written by Timothy Severin and published by Pan. This book was released on 2003 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work explores the legend behind Daniel Defoe's classic novel, visiting possible places where this famous literary character could have been marooned. It also re-examines the claim that Crusoe was based on a real life castaway, Alexander Selkirk.

Author : Thurston Clarke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Searching for Crusoe written by Thurston Clarke and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They inspire feelings of great passion, serenity, and sometimes fear . . . they give people the opportunity to find themselves--or to lose their minds . . . they are revered as paradise or treated as junkyards . . . both haunted by and respectful of history . . . they are central to the myths and religions of many peoples throughout time . . . they provide a real, friendly community or the hell of repetitive social encounters . . . What is it about islands that has captivated millions of people around the world and through the centuries? In a penetrating, brilliantly written book that weaves sociology, history, politics, personality, and ancient and popular culture into one compelling narrative, Thurston Clarke island-hops around the oceans of the world, searching for an explanation for the most passionate and enduring geographic love affair of all time--between humankind and islands. Along the way Clarke visits the remote and silent Mas À Tierra, the island off the coast of Chile that inspired Defoe to write Robinson Crusoe; tropical Banda Neira, one of the Spice Islands, where its self-crowned prince hopes for nothing less than nutmeg's complete and glorious revival; sleepy, simple Campobello, the Canadian island where Franklin D. Roosevelt spent his boyhood summers; Patmos, with its imposing mountaintop monastery; Malekula, once the most notorious cannibal island in the world; and Jura in Scotland's Hebrides, where George Orwell wrote 1984--the island that turned Clarke into a islomane, someone Lawrence Durrell says experiences an "indescribable intoxication" at finding himself in "a little world surrounded by the sea." Despite colonialism and missionary conversions, wartime scars and shrinking coasts, islands have thrived. Though each island is unique in its own way, Clarke discovers that the islanders themselves are a distinct people-- tranquilized by their watery horizons yet sensitive to the first shift in weather, conservative yet more likely to drop their inhibitions because no one is looking. And over every island falls the shadow of Robinson Crusoe, persuading us that islands are more liberating than confining, more contemplative than lonely, more holy than barbaric because we have been "removed from all the wickedness of the world." In a stunning work of wit, adventure, and incisive exploration, Thurston Clarke brings a unique passion to dazzling life.

Author : Timothy Severin
Publisher : Macmillan _
ISBN 13 : 9780333905555
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.55/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Seeking Robinson Crusoe written by Timothy Severin and published by Macmillan _. This book was released on 2002 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work is an exploration in to the legend behind Danile Defoe's classic novel, citing possible places where this famous character could have been marooned. It rexamines the claim that Crusoe was based on a real life castaway, Alexander Selkirk. Describing the tropical locales and the practicalities of island life, the text brings the fictional and the factual together, along the way exploding some enduring myths.

Author : Elizabeth Bishop
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466889411
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Geography III written by Elizabeth Bishop and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Whether writing about waiting as a child in a dentist's office, viewing a city from a plane high above, or losing items ranging from door keys to one's lover in the masterfully restrained "One Art," Elizabeth Bishop somehow conveyed both large and small emotional truths in language of stunning exactitude and even more astonishing resonance. As John Ashbery has written, "The private self . . . melts imperceptibly into the large utterance, the grandeur of poetry, which, because it remains rooted in everyday particulars, never sounds ‘grand,' but is as quietly convincing as everyday speech."

Author : Tim Severin
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786749989
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search Of Robinson Crusoe written by Tim Severin and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-07-21 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For nearly three centuries, Robinson Crusoe has been the archetypal castaway, the symbol of survival in uninhabited wilds. In this book, Tim Severin adds this enterprising hero to the roster of legendary figures whose adventures he's replicated and whose origins he's explored. With the signature approach to literary and historical sleuthing that has led the New York Times to describe him as "original, audacious, and exuberant," Severin uncovers the seaman's world that captured Daniel Defoe's imagination, recounting dramatic survival stories of sailors, pirates, castaways, and native Americans and replicating their journeys to experience for himself the adventures that inspired Robinson Crusoe. He camps on islands that famous castaways once survived on, undertakes a perilous sea voyage, and searches Nicaragua and Honduras for the Miskutu Indians, the tribe that the model for Crusoe's companion, Friday, belonged to. Tim Severin has once again demonstrated a superb ability to bring together literature, history and adventure in an engrossing narrative.

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robinson Crusoe for Boys and Girls written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This little book is the result of much experience in seeking to adapt the story of Robinson Crusoe to the literary attainments and educational needs of children in the primary schools... Those events in DeFoe's story that are of doubtful educational value are omitted; but it is believed that the child's interest in the narrative is not impaired thereby. The language is that of children, and Robinson seems to be telling his story to them.

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Good Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.53/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Life and Most Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner (1801) written by Daniel Defoe and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-19 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robinson Crusoe is a novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719. The first edition credited the work's protagonist Robinson Crusoe as its author, leading many readers to believe he was a real person and the book a travelog of true incidents. The Life and Most Surprising Adventures is the third novel in the series.

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781720494164
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The novel Robinson Crusoe tells the story of a young and impulsive Englishman that defies his parents' wishes and takes to the seas seeking adventure. The young Robinson Crusoe is shipwrecked and castaway on a remote tropical island for 28 years. The story may be based on the true-life events of Alexander Selkirk, a Scottish castaway who survived four years on a Pacific island, or Henry Pitman, a political rebel surgeon castaway from a Caribbean penal colony. This classic tale of adventure features cannibals, captives, and mutineers.

Author : Lewis Hyde
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1429930837
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trickster Makes This World written by Lewis Hyde and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2010-08-17 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Trickster Makes This World, Lewis Hyde brings to life the playful and disruptive side of human imagination as it is embodied in trickster mythology. He first visits the old stories—Hermes in Greece, Eshu in West Africa, Krishna in India, Coyote in North America, among others—and then holds them up against the lives and work of more recent creators: Picasso, Duchamp, Ginsberg, John Cage, and Frederick Douglass. Twelve years after its first publication, Trickster Makes This World—authoritative in its scholarship, loose-limbed in its style—has taken its place among the great works of modern cultural criticism. This new edition includes an introduction by Michael Chabon.

Author : Katherine Frank
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1639360271
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Crusoe written by Katherine Frank and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-15 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is January 1719 and Daniel Defoe, almost sixty, sits at a table, writing. He is troubled with gout and debt, but for now is preoccupied with a younger man on a barren shore – Robinson Crusoe, for which he will principally be remembered. Several miles south, an old man, Robert Knox, is bent over a heavy volume. It is Historical Relation, his account of being held captive on Ceylon, published forty years ago after he escaped and returned to England. It has long been out of print, but a copy perhaps sits on the desk of Daniel Defoe as he writes. Where did Crusoe come from? And what is the secret of his endurance? Crusoe explores the intertwined lives of two real men – Daniel Defoe and Robert Knox – and the character and book that emerged from their peculiar conjunction. It is the biography of a book and its hero, the story of Defoe, the man who wrote Robinson Crusoe, and of Robert Knox, the man who was Crusoe.