by Tim Severin
2. Captain Edward Cooke’s map of Juan Fernández.
3. Seals, fish and birds found at Juan Fernández: No. 6 the humming bird, No. 8 the ‘cabbage tree’.
4. ‘The Shipwreck’, from an illustrated Victorian Robinson Crusoe.
5. Buccaneers travelling on rafts by river across Central America.
6. A crocodile seizing a traveller by the leg in the forest.
7. Buccaneer ships in action.
8. Captain Watling shoots an elderly Spanish captive on the beach.
9. Kuna woman shot with blood-letting arrows.
10. Kuna men smoking in their hut.
11. Desperate voyagers – six men, one of them bailing, travel in a small open boat using a makeshift square sail.
12. Crusoe ‘turning turtle’ in his hunt for food.
13. Crusoe firing his pots.
14. Henry Pitman’s advertisement for his medicines sold at the premises of his publisher John Taylor, whose son published Robinson Crusoe.
Seeking Robinson Crusoe
TIM SEVERIN, explorer, traveller, author, film-maker and lecturer, made his first expedition by motorcycle, along the route of Marco Polo, while still a student at Oxford. He has had many further adventures, most recently in search of Moby Dick, and has written books about them all. He has won the Thomas Cook Travel Book Award, The Book Of The Sea Award, a Christopher Prize and the literary medal of the Académie de la Marine. He lives in Ireland.
ALSO BY TIM SEVERIN
The Brendan Voyage
The Sinbad Voyage
The Jason Voyage
The Ulysses Voyage
Crusader
In Search of Genghis Khan
The China Voyage
The Spice Island Voyage
In Search of Moby Dick
First published 2002 by Macmillan
This edition published 2003 by Pan Books
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