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a journey among the last real islands

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Searching for Crusoe

a journey among the last real islands

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Not really about the famous fictional castaway at all, but more about the place he was forced to make his temporary home and other places like it, this book is travel writer Thurston Clarke's love letter to the places he has long been obsessed with: the little worlds surrounded by sea.

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Publisher
Little, Brown
Language
English
Pages
342

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Searching for Crusoe: a journey among the last real islands
2001, Little, Brown
in English
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Searching for Crusoe: a journey among the last real islands
2001, Ballantine Books
in English - 1st ed.

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Table of Contents

The Four Brothers
Famous islands (Crusoe's island: Mas a Tierra ; Spice Island: Banda Neira ; Bali-ha'i and the Octagon House: Espiritu Santo ; Atlantis: The Maldives)
Personal islands (Beloved islands: fishers and Campobello ; Silent island: Isle of Jura ; Holy island: Patmos ; Friendly islands: Abemama and Kosrae)
Symbolic islands (Private island: Nihau ; Utopian islands: Eigg and Svarlbad ; Frightening islands: Malekula and Phu Quoc ; Pleasure spots: Grand Cayman and Roatan ; Undiscovered island: Utila).

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
910.9142

The Physical Object

Pagination
342 pages
Number of pages
342

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31925847M
Internet Archive
searchingforcrus0000clar
ISBN 10
0316858021
ISBN 13
9780316858021
OCLC/WorldCat
46693513

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