Searching for Crusoe: A Journey Among the Last Real Islands [Idioma Inglés] - Tapa dura

The acclaimed travel writer and author of California Fault journeys around the world to celebrate humankind's enduring love affair with islands on an odyssey that takes him to Scotland's Hebirdes, Canada's Campobello, Patmos, Malekula, the Spice Islands, and Mas + Tierra, off the coast of Chile, which inspired Defoe's Robinson Crusoe. 30,000 first printing. First serial, CondT Nast Traveler.

feelings of great passion, serenity, and sometimes fear . . . they give people the opportunity to find themselves--or to lose their minds . . . they are revered as paradise or treated as junkyards . . . both haunted by and respectful of history . . . they are central to the myths and religions of many peoples throughout time . . . they provide a real, friendly community or the hell of repetitive social encounters . . . What is it about islands that has captivated millions of people around the world and through the centuries?

In a penetrating, brilliantly written book that weaves sociology, history, politics, personality, and ancient and popular culture into one compelling narrative, Thurston Clarke island-hops around the oceans of the world, searching for an explanation for the most passionate and enduring geographic love affair of all time--between humankind and islands.

Along the way Clarke visits the remote and silent Mas À Tierra, the island off the coast of Chile t