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SEARCHING FOR CRUSOE is not really about the famous fictional castaway at all - it is more about the place he was forced to make his temporary home, and other places like it. Renowned travel writer Thurston Clarke has long been obsessed with islands, an affliction he calls 'islomania', and his new 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 à Tierra in the Pacific, Clarke then takes us on a hugely enjoyable 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 . . .
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An entertaining and often informative read, the perfect escapist material for a damp Sunday afternoon in August. (SUNDAY BUSINESS POST)
The best book on islands anyone could want...enchanting. (FINANCIAL TIMES)
Another of Clarke's redeeming qualities is his taste for the quirky and the downright weird. (DAILY TELEGRAPH)
This enchanting hymn to our ceaseless fascination for islands and insularity is brilliant... (SIMON WINCHESTER, author of THE SURGEON OF CROWTHORNE)
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The best book on islands anyone could want...enchanting. (FINANCIAL TIMES)
Another of Clarke's redeeming qualities is his taste for the quirky and the downright weird. (DAILY TELEGRAPH)
This enchanting hymn to our ceaseless fascination for islands and insularity is brilliant... (SIMON WINCHESTER, author of THE SURGEON OF CROWTHORNE)
* A superbly written and entertaining exploration of the author's 'islomania' - excessive love of islands
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- PublisherLittle, Brown
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 0316858021
- ISBN 13 9780316858021
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages350
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