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Castaway Tales

Author : Christopher Palmer
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
ISBN 13 : 0819576220
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (195 download)

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Download or read book Castaway Tales written by Christopher Palmer and published by Wesleyan University Press. This book was released on 2016-05-10 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wide-ranging and appreciative literary history of the castaway tale from Defoe to the present Ever since Robinson Crusoe washed ashore, the castaway story has survived and prospered, inspiring a multitude of writers of adventure fiction to imitate and adapt its mythic elements. In his brilliant critical study of this popular genre, Christopher Palmer traces the castaway tales' history and changes through periods of settlement, violence, and reconciliation, and across genres and languages. Showing how subsequent authors have parodied or inverted the castaway tale, Palmer concentrates on the period following H. G. Wells's The Island of Dr. Moreau. These much darker visions are seen in later novels including William Golding's Lord of the Flies, J. G. Ballard's Concrete Island, and Iain Banks's The Wasp Factory. In these and other variations, the castaway becomes a cannibal, the castaway's island is relocated to center of London, female castaways mock the traditional masculinity of the original Crusoe, or Friday ceases to be a biddable servant. By the mid-twentieth century, the castaway tale has plunged into violence and madness, only to see it return in young adult novels—such as Scott O'Dell's Island of the Blue Dolphins and Terry Pratchett's Nation—to the buoyancy and optimism of the original. The result is a fascinating series of revisions of violence and pessimism, but also reconciliation.

Crusoes and Castaways

Author : Stanley Rogers
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486478971
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Crusoes and Castaways written by Stanley Rogers and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than 80 illustrations enhance these dramatic stories of lives passed in exile. Tales include that of the real-life Robinson Crusoe, plus other adventures from the North Pole to Patagonia.

Crusoe's Island

Author : Andrew Lambert
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571330258
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Crusoe's Island written by Andrew Lambert and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2016-09-13 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From an acclaimed naval historian, Crusoe's Island charts the curious relationship between the British and an island on the other side of the world: Robinson Crusoe, in the South Pacific.The tiny island assumed a remarkable position in British culture, most famously in Daniel Defoe's novel. Andrew Lambert reveals the truth behind the legend of this place, bringing to life the voices of the visiting sailors, scientists and artists, as well as the wonders, tragedy and violence that they encountered.

Robinson Crusoe Readalong

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Ags Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780785407706
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Robinson Crusoe Readalong written by Daniel Defoe and published by Ags Pub. This book was released on 1994-08 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Crusoe's Books

Author : Bill Bell
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192894692
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Crusoe's Books written by Bill Bell and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about readers on the move in the age of Victorian empire. It examines the libraries and reading habits of five reading constituencies from the long nineteenth century: shipboard emigrants, Australian convicts, Scottish settlers, polar explorers, and troops in the First World War. What was the role of reading in extreme circumstances? How were new meanings made under strange skies? How was reading connected with mobile communities in an age of expansion? Uncovering a vast range of sources from the period, from diaries, periodicals, and literary culture, Bill Bell reveals some remarkable and unanticipated insights into the way that reading operated within and upon the British Empire for over a century.

Crusoes and Other Castaways in Modern French Literature

Author : Joseph Acquisto
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1611494060
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (114 download)

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Download or read book Crusoes and Other Castaways in Modern French Literature written by Joseph Acquisto and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2012 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You're no idiot, of course. You're not afraid to express your ideas or to stray from the tired and true. And you are known among your friends and loved ones for your great personal style. But when it comes to veering from the traditional nuptial path, you are starting to feel like eloping is the only answer. Don't book Elvis's Chapel of Love just yet! The Complete Idiot's Guide to Creative Weddings is here to help you make your wedding day more than just a cookie-cutter celebration. In this book, you'll learn how to plan the perfect creative wedding by hatching your own new traditions that express your personal style. You'll blend in the family rituals that you treasure and still make it to the altar in one piece. In this Complete Idiot's Guide, you'll get:

Castaways

Author : George Cadwalader
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603580530
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Castaways written by George Cadwalader and published by Chelsea Green Publishing. This book was released on 2006-03-15 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Castaways and Crusoes

Author : Horace Kephart
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Castaways and Crusoes written by Horace Kephart and published by . This book was released on 1915 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Robinson Crusoe

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher : Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe and published by Strelbytskyy Multimedia Publishing. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Almost 300 years ago this fascinating novel was published with probably the most long title: The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, Mariner: Who Lived Eight and Twenty Years, All Alone in an Un-inhabited Island on the Coast of America, Near the Mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; Having Been Cast on Shore by Shipwreck, Wherein All the Men Perished but Himself. With an Account how he was at last as Strangely Deliver’d by Pyrates. Written by Himself. For hundreds of years this book impresses the imagination by displaying of courage, ingenuity, vitality of the person, caught in such a binding that it is difficult to imagine. But still it is so exciting to imagine, while reading a book in a cozy room. Pretty illustrations by Vladislav Kolomoets provide you with new impressions from reading this legendary story.

The New Robinson Crusoe

Author : Joachim Heinrich Campe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 52 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The New Robinson Crusoe written by Joachim Heinrich Campe and published by . This book was released on 1834 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Millionaire Castaway

Author : Dave Glasheen
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1925972313
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (259 download)

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Download or read book Millionaire Castaway written by Dave Glasheen and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dave Glasheen's life began spiralling out of control after he lost his family's vast fortune in the stock market crash of 1987. After a series of catastrophes, he needed to take drastic measures to restore himself. Opting out of the rat race, he cast himself away to a deserted island off the north-east tip of Australia, as far off the grid as was humanly possible. He has lived there ever since. One annual supermarket shop, a sketchy internet connection, and enough ingredients for a home brew satisfy Dave's material needs. He catches fish, traps rainwater and cooks on an open fire. For company he tames dingoes, meets with friends from the Aboriginal community 40 kilometres away, and entertains drop-ins such as Russell Crowe sailing past on his honeymoon. Then there's Dave's running feud with Boxhead, an antisocial saltwater crocodile who just won't leave him in peace. Between heartbreak and hair-raising adventures, Dave has found happiness on Restoration Island. Brimming with humour, eccentricity and hard-earned wisdom, The Millionaire Castaway will give you a whole new view on life.

Crusoe, Castaways and Shipwrecks in the Perilous Age of Sail

Author : Mike Rendell
Publisher : Pen and Sword
ISBN 13 : 1526747480
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Crusoe, Castaways and Shipwrecks in the Perilous Age of Sail written by Mike Rendell and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2019-01-31 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Fascinating” stories of real-life people and events that inspired the author of the classic adventure novel Robinson Crusoe (Historical Novel Society). This book looks at some of the stories that inspired Daniel Defoe, author of Robinson Crusoe—stories of bravery, determination, and good fortune, as well as human negligence, sheer stupidity, and bad luck. In addition to an overview of Defoe’s life and his monumentally successful novel, it also considers some of the reasons why people found themselves cast away—as a result of being wrecked, abandoned as a punishment, or marooned by pirates, or even out of deliberate choice. Major hurricanes in the eighteenth century causing huge damage to shipping and loss of life are also covered, along with catastrophes when ships were lost, and astonishing tales of survival in the face of adversity—down in the Falklands, in the Caribbean, and off the coast of Australia. It looks at how being cast away brings out the best in some—and in others the very worst. And it examines perhaps the most astonishing story of them all—sixty slaves abandoned on a desolate treeless island in the Indian Ocean and left there for fifteen years, some of whom survived against all odds.

Foe

Author : J. M. Coetzee
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 1524705497
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (247 download)

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Download or read book Foe written by J. M. Coetzee and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017-02-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the same electrical intensity of language and insight that he brought to Waiting for the Barbarians, J.M. Coetzee reinvents the story of Robinson Crusoe—and in so doing, directs our attention to the seduction and tyranny of storytelling itself. J.M. Coetzee's latest novel, The Schooldays of Jesus, is now available from Viking. Late Essays: 2006-2016 will be available January 2018. In 1720 the eminent man of letters Daniel Foe is approached by Susan Barton, lately a castaway on a desert island. She wants him to tell her story, and that of the enigmatic man who has become her rescuer, companion, master and sometimes lover: Cruso. Cruso is dead, and his manservant, Friday, is incapable of speech. As she tries to relate the truth about him, the ambitious Barton cannot help turning Cruso into her invention. For as narrated by Foe—as by Coetzee himself—the stories we thought we knew acquire depths that are at once treacherous, elegant, and unexpectedly moving.

Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Author : Daniel Defoe
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Serious Reflections During the Life and Surprising Adventures of Robinson Crusoe written by Daniel Defoe and published by . This book was released on 1720 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of moral essays is a semi-sequel toRobinson Crusoe.It may or may not have been written by Daniel Defoe, this original work's author.

Seeking Robinson Crusoe

Author : Timothy Severin
Publisher : Pan
ISBN 13 : 9780330486774
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (867 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.

Searching for Crusoe

Author : Thurston Clarke
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 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.

Robinson Crusoe

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Chelsea House Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (97 download)

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Download or read book Robinson Crusoe written by Harold Bloom and published by Chelsea House Publications. This book was released on 1995 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Storm, shipwreck, pirates, and mutiny are the timeless themes of this recreated classic. The action-packed story lines retain all the impact of the author's own words, while photos and narrative illustrations help readers to absorb the full flavor of the original novel. Full color.