Searching for Crusoe
Subtitle: a journey among the last real islands
By: Thurston Clarke
Publisher: Little, Brown
Published: 2001
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780316858021
Subjects: Travel; Islands
Description: 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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The Four Brothers; title: Famous islands (Crusoe's island: Mas a Tierra ; Spice Island: Banda Neira ; Bali-ha'i and the Octagon House: Espiritu Santo ; Atlantis: The Maldives); title: Personal islands (Beloved islands: fishers and Campobello ; Silent island: Isle of Jura ; Holy island: Patmos ; Friendly islands: Abemama and Kosrae); title: 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).