Castaway : the extraordinary survival story of Narcisse Pelletier, a young French cabin boy shipwrecked on Cape York in 1858
Macklin, Robert, 1941-2019
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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, fourteen-year-old French cabin boy Narcisse Pelletier was aboard the trader Saint-Paul 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.
Main title:
Author:
Macklin, Robert, 1941-, author
Imprint:
Sydney, NSW : Hatchette Australia, 2019.©2019
Collation:
xv, 320 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits, facsimiles ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780733638497 (paperback)
Dewey class:
994.38
Language:
English
Subject:
Pelletier, NarcisseCastaways -- Queensland -- Cape York Peninsula -- BiographyShipwreck victims -- Queensland -- Cape York Peninsula -- BiographyShipwreck survival -- Queensland -- Cape York PeninsulaSurvival -- Queensland -- Cape York PeninsulaAboriginal Australians -- Queensland -- Cape York Peninsula -- Social life and customsShipwrecks -- Coral SeaCape York Peninsula (Qld.) -- History -- 1851-1891Queensland -- History -- 1851-1891
BRN:
41930
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