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The two volumes of the novel were initially published in English translation as two separate volumes: Their Island Home and The Castaways of the Flag. Later reprints were published under the title The Castaways of the Flag. The story is a sequel to the 1812 book The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Wyss, picking up where that novel leaves off.
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.
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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.
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”.
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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 .