Castaway by Robert Macklin

Castaway by Robert MacklinIn 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 and

but for the real-life woman who became an Australian farming entrepreneur

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He also challenges the past to speak up by interrogating the archive

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a story of healing

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clandestine cover-ups and criminal conspiracy

and his creation of the Royal Flying Doctor Service in Australias Outback in the 1920s

their vision was to share with the world their family memories through the delights of Afghan cuisine

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