Selkirk's Island by Diana Souhami
Selkirk's Island

Diana Souhami

Selkirk's Island

Diana Souhami

246 pages first pub 2001 (editions)

nonfiction biography history adventurous reflective slow-paced
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Selkirk was a pirate and a buccaneer who sailed on the South Seas on looting expeditions for gold and treasure. In 1703 he joined an expedition whose object was to plunder French and Spanish ships. Conditions on the ship were appalling; scurvy, dy...

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