Castaway: The Extraordinary Survival Story of Narcisse Pelletier, a Young French Cabin Boy Shipwrecked on Cape York in 1858

by Robert Macklin

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0733645062
• ISBN13: 9780733645068
• Release Date: October 2021
• Publisher: Hachette Australia
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.7"