Castaway The remarkable true story of the French cabin boy abandoned in nineteenthcentury Australia The remarkable true story of the French cabin boy abandoned in nineteenth-century Australia

Name: Castaway The remarkable true story of the French cabin boy abandoned in nineteenthcentury Australia
Author: Robert Macklin

Auteur: Robert Macklin

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Robert Macklin

Engels
Paperback
9781472140692
07 november 2019
352 pagina's

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A true story of an almost unimaginable experience that has at its heart what it means to be human, also that what unites us is far more significant than what divides us.

The extraordinary survival story of Narcisse Pelletier, a young French cabin boy shipwrecked
on Cape York, Australia, in 1858

In 1858, fourteen-year-old Narcisse Pelletier sailed from Marseilles in the French trader Saint-Paul. With a cargo of Bordeaux wine, the ship stopped in Bombay, then Hong Kong, and from there it set sail with more than 300 Chinese prospectors aboard, bound for the goldfields of Ballarat and Bendigo in Australia. Off the eastern tip of New Guinea, however, the ship became engulfed in fog, struck reefs and ran aground.

Scrambling aboard a longboat, the survivors undertook a perilous voyage, crossing almost 1,000 kilometres of the Coral Sea before reaching the shores of the Daintree region in far north Queensland. There, Narcisse was left for dead by his shipmates, but rescued by the local Aboriginal people, the Uutaalnganu. For seventeen years, Narcisse lived with them, growing to manhood and participating fully in their world.

Then, in 1875 he was discovered by the crew of a pearling lugger and wrenched from his Aboriginal family. Returned to his 'real' life in France, Narcisse became a lighthouse keeper, married and had another family, all the while dreaming of what he had left behind.

Drawing on first-hand interviews with Narcisse after his return to France and other contemporary accounts of exploration and survival, and documenting the spread of European settlement in Queensland and the brutal frontier wars that followed, Robert Macklin weaves an unforgettable tale of a young man caught between two cultures in a time of upheaval and transformation.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 07 november 2019
Aantal pagina's: 352
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Robert Macklin
Hoofduitgeverij: Robinson

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Product breedte: 154 mm
Product hoogte: 28 mm
Product lengte: 232 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 153 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 32 mm
Verpakking lengte: 234 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 434 g

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