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Robinson Crusoe in an 1887 illustration. Robinsonade (/ ˌ r ɒ b ɪ n s ə ˈ n eɪ d / ROB-in-sən-AYD) is a literary genre of fiction wherein the protagonist is suddenly separated from civilization, usually by being shipwrecked or marooned on a secluded and uninhabited island, and must improvise the means of their survival from the limited resources at hand.
Two Years' Vacation (French: Deux ans de vacances) is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1888.The story tells of the fortunes of a group of schoolboys stranded on a deserted island in the South Pacific, and of their struggles to overcome adversity.
Robinson Crusoe [a] (/ ˈ k r uː s oʊ / KROO-soh) is an English adventure novel by Daniel Defoe, first published on 25 April 1719.Written with a combination of epistolary, confessional, and didactic forms, the book follows the title character (born Robinson Kreutznaer) after he is cast away and spends 28 years on a remote tropical desert island near the coasts of Venezuela and Trinidad ...
The island was a six hour boat ride from mainland. The island was a six hour boat ride from mainland. Skip to main content. Sign in. Mail. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...
ʻAta island. The Tongan castaways were a group of six Tongan teenage boys who shipwrecked on the uninhabited island of ʻAta in 1965 and lived there for 15 months until their rescue. The boys ran away from their boarding school on the island of Tongatapu, stealing a boat in their escape. After a storm wrecked the boat, they drifted to the ...
A New York magazine editor and a pilot fight pirates and face other dangers after crash landing on a desert island in the South Seas. 1998 Cast Away: Robert Zemeckis: Tom Hanks: After surviving a plane crash, a FedEx systems analyst finds himself stranded on a desert island in the South Pacific. 2000 Awards: 1 Golden Globe, 15 other awards ...
An uninhabited island, desert island, or deserted island, is an island, islet or atoll which lacks permanent human population. Uninhabited islands are often depicted in films or stories about shipwrecked people, and are also used as stereotypes for the idea of " paradise ".
The background of the game's story is minimal. All that is truly known is that the player character, either a boy named Ken (Kou in Japan), or a girl named Mery (Nami in Japan) (the names are optional), has become stranded on a deserted island after a storm capsizes the player's boat, and must actively work to survive and possibly find a way to escape back to civilization.