of stone and sand -- -of ferns and feathers -- -of first footprints -- -of tin and tans -- -of first nations -- -of moons and sixpence -- -of palettes and pipes -- -of the mind -- The last mile
Summary
When Lost's Oceanic Airlines Flight 815 crashed, the survivors found themselves on a seemingly deserted island. In Defoe's novel, Robinson Crusoe spends twenty-eight years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad, while in the movie Castaway Tom Hanks survives over four years on a South Pacific island. And Jurassic Park kept its dinosaur population confined to an island off the coast of Central America. Islands often find themselves at the center of imagined worlds, secluded and sometimes mystical locales filled with strange creatures and savage populations. The cann
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-326) and index
