Souhami, Diana. Selkirk's island; the true and strange adventures of the real Robinson Crusoe.(Young Adult Review)(Book Review)(Brief Article)

Kliatt | March 1, 2003| | Copyright

Harcourt, Harvest. 246p. map. notes. index. c2001. 0-15-6027178. $13.00.

Diana Souhami visited Isla Robinson Crusoe, which is located 360 miles off the coast of Chile. She also searched through numerous diaries, journals, books, and legal documents written in the 1700s. The result is the shocking story of Alexander Selkirk, the man on whom the story of Robinson Crusoe is based. For her efforts, Souhami won the Whitbread Award for Biography. The book begins with a poetic description of the island as it was in 1702. It was "a chip of land," inhabited by seals, ...

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