The figure of the castaway is one of the most powerful in our literary heritage. Whether he is St. Paul shipwrecked on Malta, Ulysses cast up on Nausicaa's beach, Prospero on Bermuda, Gulliver on Lilliput, or the Ancient Mariner adrift on an endless ocean, the castaway figure has maintained a firm grip on our imagination and sympathy.
Castaway in Paradise explores the reality in the myth through the exciting stories of castaways who, because of shipwrecks, perfidious sea captains, or their own choice, found themselves true-life Robinson Crusoes. From Alexander Selkirk, Defoe's model for Robinson Crusoe to William Mariner, the boy chief of Tonga, coming to the present time with Tom Neale, a drifter from New Zealand who became the hermit of Suwarrow, there is a fascinating array of castaways and their adventures.
These are gripping stories of adventure and survival. Each of the castaways had the ability to endure the pressures of isolation and solitude. Their experiences show that solitude can be the beginning of a new realization of the potentialities of the individual.
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