{"product_id":"castaway-robert-macklin-9780733645068","title":"Castaway: The Extraordinary Survival Story of Narcisse Pelletier, a Young French Cabin Boy Shipwrecked on Cape York in 1858","description":"\u003cbr\u003eIn 1858, fourteen-year-old French cabin boy Narcisse Pelletier was aboard the trader \u003ci\u003eSaint-Paul \u003c\/i\u003ewhen 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Macklin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0733645062\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780733645068\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Hachette Australia\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/12\/2021\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 336\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.70h x 5.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Robert Macklin","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43991079682303,"sku":"9780733645068","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_f61a3fd1-894e-4197-bd97-0a1c47517664.jpg?v=1683308320","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/castaway-robert-macklin-9780733645068","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}