The Other Exile: The Story of Fernao Lopes, St Helena and a Paradise Lost

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A tale of a real-life Robinson Crusoe and his total retreat from human society.
The first known inhabitant of St Helena - long before Napoleon - was a 16th-century Portuguese renegade. In 1506 Fernao Lopes, a member of his country's minor nobility, travelled to Goa in search of honour and wealth. There he converted to Islam, married a Muslim, fought his former countrymen, and was eventually captured - his nose and hands publicly cut off for treachery. Eventually sailing for home, he jumped ship at St. Helena, becoming the island's first inhabitant, with only a black cockerel for company. News of Lopes reached the King of Portugal. Picked up by a ship sent especially for him, Lopes so impressed the King, and the Pope in Rome, that he was granted one wish. He requested his return to St Helena. Based on brand new research by A R Azzam, author of the acclaimed Saladin (Longman, 2007), The Other Exile is at once a historical adventure story and a meditation on solitude. It is a story about redemption in one of the darkest periods in Europe and the tale of the haunting relationship between man and wild nature.
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Weight 0.507000
Author Azzam, Abdul Rahman
Availability IP
Department Travel Writing
Format Hardback
ISBN 9781785781834
Pages 320
Published 04/05/2017
Publisher Icon Books
Section Travel Writing: General
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