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Castaway is a 1983 autobiographical book by Lucy Irvine about her year on the Australian tropical Torres Strait island of Tuin, having answered a want ad from writer Gerald Kingsland seeking a "wife" for a year in 1982. It was published by Victor Gollancz Ltd. Irvine stated she longed for a “major personal challenge”.
In 1983, she published her account of the experience in Castaway, which was later used as the basis for the 1986 film of the same name. [1] According to Irvine, the film, directed by Nicolas Roeg , is more about the relationship between an older man and a young woman than it is about her experiences on the island.
Fictional castaways, people cast adrift or ashore.While the situation usually happens after a shipwreck, some people voluntarily stay behind on a desert island, either to evade captors or the world in general.
Castaways of the Flying Dutchman is the first novel in the Castaways series by Brian Jacques and was published in 2001. [1] It is based on the legend of the cursed ship known as the Flying Dutchman.
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The book tells the story of the quest for Captain Grant of the Britannia. After finding a bottle the captain had cast into the ocean after the Britannia is shipwrecked, Lord and Lady Glenarvan of Scotland contact Mary and Robert, the young daughter and son of Captain Grant, through an announcement in a newspaper. The government refuses to ...