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Castaway is a 1983 autobiographical book by Lucy Irvine about her year on the Australian tropical Torres Strait island of Tuin, having answered a want ad from writer Gerald Kingsland seeking a "wife" for a year in 1982.
Jul 1, 2011 · The Castaways probes the boundaries of friendship and forgiveness as it tells a page-turning story of passion, betrayal, and suspense, filled with the perfect details of summer island life that have made Elin Hilderbrand's novels beloved bestsellers. Report an issue with this product or seller.
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Jan 1, 2001 · Uncompromisingly candid and sometimes shocking, Castaway is her compulsively readable account of a desert island dream which threatened to turn into a nightmare of illness, thirst and personal antipathy.
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Jan 1, 1984 · Castaway Hardcover – January 1, 1984. by Lucy Irvine (Author) 4.3 241 ratings. See all formats and editions. The author recounts the adventures she encountered after she answered an advertisement and went to live with a writer on a mile-long island in the Coral Sea north of Australia. Report an issue with this product or seller. Print length.
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Oct 12, 2021 · Paperback – October 12, 2021. by Robert Macklin (Author) 4.2 178 ratings. See all formats and editions. In 1858, fourteen-year-old French cabin boy Narcisse Pelletier was aboard the trader Saint-Paul when it was wrecked off the eastern tip of New Guinea.
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Sep 26, 2023 · Like Defoe’s historical fiction, though there is no Cast Away true story, Cast Away was inspired by the lives of real-world explorers. Alexander Selkirk is thought to have been the biggest inspiration behind Defoe’s novel, and he was a Scottish castaway who spent four years on a Pacific island in the early 1700s.
Books shelved as castaway: Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson, Lord of the Flies by Wi...
