Desperate Journeys, Abandoned Souls: True Stories of Castaways & Other Survivors
Edward Leslie
Product Description
Compiled here are detailed accounts of maroons, castaways, and other survivors from the 1500s to the present - the reasons they were left adrift, their extreme situations, their moral dilemmas, their personalities, and their influence on society, literature, and art.
"During the worst of his early depression the dreadful howling of the "monsters of the deep" had terrified him, their voices seeming "too terrible to be made for human ears." But he now took a certain pleasure in the noise, and when he ventured forth to explore his domain, he found that the clamorous creatures who had been so hideous in his imagination were merely sea lions that had crawled up on the sand. " page 75
Houghton Mifflin, paperback, 1998, 586 pages