Castaway
by Robert Macklin
- Used
- Paperback
- Condition
- Good Condition
- ISBN 10
- 0733645062
- ISBN 13
- 9780733645068
- Seller
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Picton, New South Wales, Australia
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About This Item
Hachette, Sydney, 2021. Edition Unstated. Softcover. Good Condition. In 1858, fourteen-year-old French cabin boy Narcisse Pelletier was aboard the trader Saint-Paul when it was wrecked off the eastern tip of New Guinea.Scrambling into a longboat, Narcisse and the other survivors crossed almost 1000 kilometres of the Coral Sea before reaching the shores of Far North Queensland. If not for the local Aboriginal people, Narcisse would have perished. For seventeen years he lived with them, growing to manhood and participating fully in their Uutaalnganu world. Then, in 1875, his life was again turned upside down.Drawing from firsthand 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 transformation and upheaval. Trade Paperback. Size: 180mm - 250mm. 320 pages. Covers have some shelf-wear as well as some bumping to corners and extremities. Quantity Available: 1. Shipped Weight: Under 1 kilo. Category: History; Australia; Biography & Autobiography. ISBN: 0733645062. ISBN/EAN: 9780733645068. Inventory No: 52124. . 9780733645068
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- Bookseller
- Bong Bong Books (AU)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 52124
- Title
- Castaway
- Author
- Robert Macklin
- Format/Binding
- Softcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good Condition
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Edition Unstated
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0733645062
- ISBN 13
- 9780733645068
- Publisher
- Hachette
- Place of Publication
- Sydney
- Date Published
- 2021
- Keywords
- BZDB3 History; Australia; Biography & Autobiography. Unbranded ISBN: 0733645062 EAN: 9780733645068 Robert Macklin Castaway
- Bookseller catalogs
- Biography & Autobiography;
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