Searching for Paradise
Subtitle: A Grand Tour of the World's Unspoiled Islands
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: January 2, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9780345435101
Subjects: Reference - Guides (General); Clarke, Thurston; Journeys; Travel / General; General; Travel - Foreign; Islands; Voyages and travels; Travel
First sentence: The modern obsession with islands starts with Robinson Crusoe, so I started with his island, Mas a Tierra, the Pacific Island four hundred miles off the coast of Chile in the Juan Fernandez archipelago, where a Scottish seaman named Alexander Selkirk was m