Searching for Crusoe: A Journey Among the Last Real Islands - Couverture rigide

Clarke, Thurston

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0316858021 ISBN 13 : 9780316858021

Editeur : Little, Brown & Company, 2001

Synopsis

"Searching for Crusoe" is 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. Travel writer Thurston Clarke has long been obsessed with islands, an affliction he calls "islomania", and this book is a kind of love letter to these little (and not so little) worlds surrounded by sea. Beginning with the accepted model for Robinson Crusoe's remote abode, Mas a Tierra in the Pacific, Clarke then takes readers on a tour of his favourite islands, exploring their geography, history and culture. From George Orwell's Jura, where he wrote "1984", to the beautiful (but slowly sinking) Maldives in the Indian Ocean, this is a book about some of the most curious and evocative places on earth. And over every island falls the shadow of Crusoe, persuading us that islands are more liberating than confining, more contemplative than lonely, more holy than barbaric.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Thurston Clarke is a noted travel writer and journalist and the author of nine widely acclaimed works of fiction and non-fiction. He has written for VANITY FAIR, OUTSIDE, CONDE NAST TRAVELLER and numerous other magazines and journals.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Little, Brown & Company
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0316858021
• ISBN 13: 9780316858021
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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