Australian author Francesca De Tores takes the true-life story of Alexander Selkirk — whose travails on an isolated island ...
This fascinating novel about 18th-century privateer Alexander Selkirk, abandoned on a tiny island in the South Pacific, becomes a revelatory meditation on humanity ...
Cast Away, Francesca de Tores’ second historical novel, tells the story of Alexander Selkirk, the putative inspiration for ...
You might think you’ve already heard a story about someone marooned on an uninhabited island who needs to fight for survival.
Alexander Selkirk, navigator of a buccaneering ship in the South Pacific Ocean, is abandoned by his crew on a deserted island ...