Seeking Robinson Crusoe

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  • Author: Tim Severin
  • Publisher: Macmillan
  • Catalogue: 115639
  • Size: 13x17cm
Tim Severin discovers that the Scots sailor stranded for 4 years on an island off the coast of Chile and long been accepted as Crusoe¿s prototype, is a flawed model.

Seeking the ¿real¿ Robinson Crusoe, Severin goes to meet Man Friday¿s descendants living on the Moskito Coast of Nicaragua, and the Indian tribe whose ancestors rescued a 17th century pirate stranded in the jungles of Panama. Finally on a desert island off the Caribbean coast of Venezuela he establishes how an English surgeon marooned there by pirates, provided the raw material for the adventures of the world¿s most famous castaway.