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SEVERIN**, TIM: : Seeking Robinson Crusoe

LONDON.MACMILLAN,2002.

ISBN 0333905555.

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,glossy laminated colour illus+ photographic illustrated dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creases to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present. Top+fore-edges generally clean; contents bright,tight and near pristine - no dog- ear reading creases to any pages' corners - an unread copy? Clean,publisher's original dark blue cloth bds with bright, crisp,stamped gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate,plain white eps. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-353pp [paginated] includes 6 chapters,b/w line illustrations throughout the text,12pp comprising 14,glossy b/w contemporary illus/plates between pp178/9,7 b/w maps throughout the text and book, acknowledgements and an index,plus [unpaginated] half-title page,b/w line illus frntis (taken from 1st edn of The Life and Strange Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe),title page,author's note, contetns list/table,illustrations+plates list/table,acknowledgements,maps list/ table,and 2 b/w maps. Who was the real Robinson Crusoe? 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 their tales of survival. A Scottish sailor,Alexander Selkirk,has long been considered the real-life inspiration for Daniel Defoe's story of Robinson Crusoe.So Severin begins his quest on the island of Juan Fernandez,400 miles off the coast of Chile,where Selkirk was marooned for four years. Discovering there is more to Crusoe than Selkirk's experience,Severin meets the descendants of Man Friday: Miskito Indians living in the swamp lands of Nicaragua, where they are fiercely independent and enjoy the benefits of modern piracy - marijuana flotsam washed up on their shores. Daniel Defoe,author of Robinson Crusoe, also knew the extraordinary survival tale of an English bucaneer surgeon,Lionel Wafer,wounded in a pirate raid and abandoned in the jungle of Panama.Severin goes to meet the Indian tribe,the Kuna,who rescued him.He finds them living today on a chain of small islands where,in effect, they have made themselves an entire tribe of Crusoes.Finally a hundred-year-old sailing boat carries Severin to Salt Tortuga,a small uninhabited island off the coast of Venezuela.There he establishes the truth about a runaway 'white slave', Harry Pitman,marooned by pirates thirty years before Defoe created Crusoe.Severin demonstrates how Pitman's authentic story is echoed in Defoe's tale,and in a fascinating twist stumbles on why Defoe would have known about Pitman's adventures. 'Seeking Robinson Crusoe' combines travel to remote islands and shores with brilliant literary detective work.Its cast of characters ranges from rascally 18thC sea captains to the present-day native peoples of the Caribbean rim,from a Scots schoolmaster to a research student from Canada who can speak the obscure Miskito language.A tale of adventure and discovery,'Seeking Robinson Crusoe' is a fantastic journey into myth and history. Since April 2013,again in March 2015,and in tjis year too,UK Post Office has altered it's Pricing in Proportion template,altering its prices,weight allowances,dimensions and lowered its compensation rates too! So,please contact seller,because of the weight/value of this item,for correct,insured shipping/P+p quotes - particularly ALL overseas buyers - BEFORE ordering through the order page!

UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.
Not SIGNED.