{"product_id":"castaway","title":"Castaway","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Macklin recounts with beautiful detail the following years of Narcisse's life and his transformation . . . a great read for anyone interested in Australia and its overlooked history'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRonan Breathnach \u003ci\u003eIrish Examiner\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'A truly remarkable account drawing upon a version Pelletier gave when he eventually returned to his native France and also on anthropological studies of the Daintree people.' \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePiers Akerman \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e Sydney \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'An unforgettable tale of transformation and upheaval.'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStuart McLean \u003ci\u003eDaily Telegraph\u003c\/i\u003e Sydney\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA young boy abandoned in an alien landscape thousands of miles from home is adopted by local people and becomes one of them welcomed into their community marrying a wife and raising a child. After seventeen years he is stolen back to his 'real' life where he has another family but dreams constantly of what he has left behind.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the remarkable true story of a French cabin boy Narcisse Pelletier who after disembarking from his ship the \u003ci\u003eSaint-Paul \u003c\/i\u003ewith the rest of its crew in search of drinking water found himself separated from his shipmates and in the end abandoned on the north coast of Queensland Australia. Narcisse was adopted by an Aboriginal group who welcomed him as one of their own for seventeen years during which time he had a family of his own. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1875 though he was kidnapped by the brig \u003ci\u003eJohn Bell\u003c\/i\u003e and was returned eventually to his family in Saint-Gilles France where he became a lighthouse keeper. Robert Macklin makes skilful use of Narcisse's own memoir \u003ci\u003eChez les sauvages\u003c\/i\u003e along with new research to tell this extraordinary story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRobert is a Queenslander so knows the terrain and the people of the area in which Narcisse was left behind. Through Noel Pearson's Cape York Institute he has arranged to meet descendants of the people who took the French cabin boy in and who know the stories of his time in Australia. Robert has also had access to a great deal of material on the early history of the Cape through the Australian National Library. He has drawn on the significant resources of the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) in Canberra on Aboriginal culture and history in Queensland and the Cape. In addition he has made use of Narcisse Pelletier's own writings including his account of his time in Australia as well as several contemporaneous accounts of the Kennedy expedition to the area including one from a member of the party. The author has made several trips to Cape York and one to Saint-Gilles and Saint-Nazaire in France.\u003c\/p\u003e\u0026gt;","brand":"Oxfordbookstore","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44786485559475,"sku":"9781472140692","price":840.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0718\/4164\/4723\/files\/blk_imp_17477290179781472140692.jpg?v=1762802870","url":"https:\/\/oxfordbookstore.com\/products\/castaway","provider":"Oxfordbookstore ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}