Seeking Robinson Crusoe [Paperback]

Tim Severin (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 6, 2003

Who was the real Robinson Crusoe? In search of the world's most famous castaway, Tim Severin travels where men were shipwrecked or abandoned in the days of the pirates and buccaneers...and lived to tell their tales of survival. A Scottish sailor, Alexander Selkirk, has long been considered as the real life inspiration for Crusoe. So Severin begins his quest on the islands of Juan Fernandez 400 miles off the coast of Chile where Selkirk was marooned for four years. Daniel Defoe, author of "Robinson Crusoe", also knew the extraordinary survival tale of an English buccaneer surgeon, Lionel Wafer, wounded in a pirate raid and abandoned in the jungle of Panama. So Severin goes to meet the Indian tribe, the Kuna, who rescued him. Carrying on his journey he finally takes a 100 year old sailing boat to Salt Tortuga, a small uninhabited island off the coast of Venezuela. There he establishes the truth about a runaway 'white slave', Henry Pitman, marooned by pirates thirty years before Defoe created Crusoe...

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About the Author

Tim Severin, explorer, film-maker and lecturer, has made many expedition from his crossing of the Atlantic in a medieval leather boat in The Brendan Voyage to, most recently, In Search of Moby Dick and Robinson Crusoe. He has won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, the Book of the Sea Award, a Christopher Prize, and the literary medal of the Academie de la Marine. In 2005 he turned to fiction with the Viking series of ancient historical novels, of which Viking: Odinn's Child is the first.

Product Details

• Paperback: 400 pages
• Publisher: Pan Macmillan (June 6, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0330486772
• ISBN-13: 978-0330486774
• Product Dimensions: 12.2 x 7.9 x 3.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.1 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,642,806 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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