Selkirk's Island

Souhami, D: 2001 UK, hardcover with dustjacket 246 pages, illustrated. Selkirk’s Island; The True and Strange Adventures of the Real Robinson Crusoe is literary non-fiction in which Diana Souhami reconstructs the marooning and survival of Scottish buccaneer Alexander Selkirk on the Pacific island later renamed Robinson Crusoe Island, and shows how his ordeal fed into the myth later shaped by Daniel Defoe. Focusing as much on the harsh, often lawless world of early eighteenth‑century privateering as on the solitude, fear and spiritual reflection of Selkirk himself, Souhami turns the island into the real protagonist, evoking its landscape, wildlife and dangers with almost novelistic detail. ISBN 9780297643852 In very good condition