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Island is a 1962 utopian manifesto and novel by English writer Aldous Huxley, the author's final work before his death in 1963. Although it has a plot, the plot largely serves to further conceptual explorations rather than setting up and resolving conventional narrative tension.
Many islands were uninhabited – to this day, more than 1,000 remain so, visited only by locals for beach days and picnics. Local villages sustained themselves with coconuts and fishing.
A man who was stranded for three days on Cay Sal, a small and uninhabited Bahamas island, was rescued on Friday.
Six Americans and two Australians were on a privately-run excursion on the island of Sao Tome on March 30 and were supposed to be back by 3 p.m. local time, according to the couple.
Front Page of the supplement. San Serriffe is a fictional island nation invented for April Fools' Day 1977 by Britain's The Guardian newspaper. [1] It was featured in a seven-page hoax supplement, published in the style of contemporary reviews of foreign countries.
The Island is a play written by Athol Fugard, John Kani, and Winston Ntshona. The apartheid -era drama, inspired by a true story, is set in an unnamed prison clearly based on South Africa 's notorious Robben Island prison , where Nelson Mandela was held for twenty-seven years.
Roberto della Griva, a 17th-century Italian nobleman, is the sole survivor of a shipwreck during a fierce storm. He finds himself washed up on an abandoned ship, the Daphne, anchored off a mysterious Pacific island through which, he convinces himself, runs the International Date Line (roughly 180° longitude).
A few days later, however, a group of indigenous Chonos visited the island and, after some negotiation, agreed to guide the group north to the Spanish-inhabited Chiloé Archipelago in return for the longboat and some guns. Most of the group died on the journey from starvation and exposure, but Cheap and several others survived and returned to ...