This week’s giveaway is Castaway by Robert Macklin.
In 1858, fourteen-year-old French cabin boy Narcisse Pelletier was abroad 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 participating fully in their Uutaalnganu world. Then, in 1875, his life turned upside down.
Drawing firsthand from interviews with Narcisse after his return to France and other contemporary accounts of exploration and survival and documenting the spread of European settlement in Queensland and the brutal frontier wars that followed, Robert Macklin weaves and unforgettable tale of a young man caught between two cultures in a time of transformation and upheaval.
To enter: Like this post, tag a friend and tell us in the comments section: “What is your favourite historical television show.”
https://www.facebook.com/TracesMag/photos/a.262237540469159/4193797820646425/?type=3&theaterEntries close Monday 2 March, 5pm AEST. Australian entrants only. Winners will be announced on Wednesday 4 March.
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