In Search Of Robinson CrusoeBasic Books, 21 ביולי 2009 - 344 עמודים For nearly three centuries, Robinson Crusoe has been the archetypal castaway, the symbol of survival in uninhabited wilds. In this book, Tim Severin adds this enterprising hero to the roster of legendary figures whose adventures he's replicated and whose origins he's explored. With the signature approach to literary and historical sleuthing that has led the New York Times to describe him as "original, audacious, and exuberant," Severin uncovers the seaman's world that captured Daniel Defoe's imagination, recounting dramatic survival stories of sailors, pirates, castaways, and native Americans and replicating their journeys to experience for himself the adventures that inspired Robinson Crusoe. He camps on islands that famous castaways once survived on, undertakes a perilous sea voyage, and searches Nicaragua and Honduras for the Miskutu Indians, the tribe that the model for Crusoe's companion, Friday, belonged to. Tim Severin has once again demonstrated a superb ability to bring together literature, history and adventure in an engrossing narrative. |
מהדורות אחרות - הצג הכל
מונחים וביטויים נפוצים
aboard Alexander Selkirk anchor anchorage Andrew Powery arrived ashore Barbados Bartholomew Sharpe beach began Betagh Big Cay birds boat buccaneers canoe Captain Captain Rowe Caribbean castaways catboat catch Cayman Cinque Ports coast coral crew Crusoe's Cumberland Bay Dampier Daniel Defoe deck Defoe Defoe's dugout feet fire fish four goats goatskins hand Henry Pitman Honduras hull ina duled Indian island Juan Fernandez Kalidonia Kendra Kuna land Leonidas Lionel Wafer lived looked mainland Managuan maroons miles Miskito Murdo musket night paddled pirates Puerto Cabezas reef river Robinson Crusoe rocks Safel sahila sail sailors Salt Tortuga sand Sandy Bay seals Serrana Serrana Bank Shelvocke Shelvocke's ship ship's shore Siriaku skiff Spaniards Spanish Speedwell stay surgeon took trees Trondur turned turtle Uring vessel village voyage Wafer walked waves Whicker William Dampier wind wooden Woodes Rogers wreck Ziska
קטעים בולטים
עמוד 16 - ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE, of York, Mariner, who lived eight and twenty years all alone in an uninhabited island on the coast of America, near the mouth of the Great River of Oroonoque; having been cast on shore by shipwreck, wherein all the men perished but himself. With an account how he was at last as strangely delivered by Pyrates. Written by himself.
עמוד 16 - ADVENTURES OF ROBINSON CRUSOE , Of YORK. MARINER: Who lived Eight and Twenty Years, all alone in an un-inhabited Island on the Coast of AMERICA, near the Mouth of the Great River of OROONOQUE; Having been cast on Shore by Shipwreck, wherein all the Men perished but himself. WITH An Account how he was at last as strangely deliver'd by PYRATES. Written by Himself.
עמוד 10 - When I first saw him I thought, if I had not been let into his character and story I could have discerned that he had been much separated from company, from his aspect and gesture; there was a strong but cheerful seriousness in his look, and a certain disregard to the ordinary things about him, as if he had been sunk in thought.
הפניות לספר זה
English/British Naval History to 1815: A Guide to the Literature <span dir=ltr>Eugene L. Rasor</span> אין תצוגה מקדימה זמינה - 2004 |