Castaway, the extraordinary survival story of Narcisse Pelletier, a young French cabin boy shipwrecked on Cape York in 1858, Robert Macklin
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Castaway, the extraordinary survival story of Narcisse Pelletier, a young French cabin boy shipwrecked on Cape York in 1858, Robert Macklin
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references and index
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contains biographical information
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index present
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non fiction
Main title
Castaway
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bibliography
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Robert Macklin
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the extraordinary survival story of Narcisse Pelletier, a young French cabin boy shipwrecked on Cape York in 1858
Summary
The astonishing and unknown story of Narcisse Pelletier a French cabin boy cast away in 1858 on the coast of Far North Queensland. In 1858, fourteenyearold French cabin boy Narcisse Pelletier was aboard the trader SaintPaul when it was wrecked off the eastern tip of New Guinea. Scrambling into a longboat, Narcisse and the other survivors crossed almost 1000 kilometres of the Coral Sea before reaching the shores of Far North Queensland. If not for the local Aboriginal people, Narcisse would have perished. For seventeen years he lived with them, growing to manhood and participating fully in their Uutaalnganu world. Then, in 1875, his life was again turned upside down. Drawing from firsthand interviews with Narcisse after his return to France and other contemporary accounts of exploration and survival, and documenting the spread of European settlement in Queensland and the brutal frontier wars that followed, Robert Macklin weaves an unforgettable tale of a young man caught between two cultures in a time of transformation and upheaval
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adult
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- Survival -- Queensland -- Cape York Peninsula
- Shipwrecks -- Coral Sea
- Cape York Peninsula (Qld.) -- History -- 1851-1891
- Castaways -- Queensland -- Cape York Peninsula -- Biography
- Pelletier, Narcisse
- Queensland -- History -- 1851-1891
- Shipwreck victims -- Queensland -- Cape York Peninsula -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians -- Queensland -- Cape York Peninsula -- Social life and customs
- Shipwreck survival -- Queensland -- Cape York Peninsula
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- Creator1
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- Survival -- Queensland -- Cape York Peninsula
- Shipwrecks -- Coral Sea
- Cape York Peninsula (Qld.) -- History -- 1851-1891
- Castaways -- Queensland -- Cape York Peninsula -- Biography
- Pelletier, Narcisse
- Queensland -- History -- 1851-1891
- Shipwreck victims -- Queensland -- Cape York Peninsula -- Biography
- Aboriginal Australians -- Queensland -- Cape York Peninsula -- Social life and customs
- Shipwreck survival -- Queensland -- Cape York Peninsula
- Content2
- Author1