“To be born is to be wrecked on an island.”

From the true-life adventure of Alexander Selkirk, through Daniel Defoe, RM Ballantyne, & Robert Louis Stevenson, John Pielmeier – author of HOOK’S TALE – follows a chain of real & fictional islands to JM Barrie’s Neverland…

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#Scottish #literature #JMBarrie #kidlit #ChildrensLiterature #PeterPan #RobertLouisStevenson #DanielDefoe #RobinsonCrusoe

Visiting the Actual Island That Inspired Neverland

“To be born is to be wrecked on an island.” J.M. Barrie wrote this in his introduction to R.M. Ballantyne’s The Coral Island, and for me it has proven to be the surprising theme of my life. As it w…

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Literarischer #5Mai

„Es ist nie zu spät, weise zu sein.“

#DanielDefoe #RobinsonCrusoe Tod 1731

Literarischer #25April

„Das Schicksal hat mich auf eine wüste Insel verschlagen, ohne Hoffnung, je befreit zu werden“.

#DanielDefoe #RobinsonCrusoe Erstveröffentlichung 1719

The inspiration for one of my favourite childhood novels was rescued on #ThisDayInHistory in 1709. Scottish sailor #AlexanderSelkirk spent more than four years living alone on an island in the #SouthPacific. His ordeal inspired #RobinsonCrusoe by #DanielDefoe, published in 1719.

#Leviathan by #ThomasHobbes

The foundational text on the social contract. Hobbes explores the necessity of government to prevent a life that is "brutish and short." 👑🛡️

Read here: https://kensbookinfo.blogspot.com/2018/11/leviathan-by-thomas-hobbes.html

#RobinsonCrusoe by #DanielDefoe

The ultimate survival story. One shipwrecked man, one tropical island, and nearly three decades of ingenuity and solitude. 🏝️🥥🛶

Read here: https://kensebooksonline.blogspot.com/2018/11/the-life-and-adventures-of-robinson.html

Leviathan By Thomas Hobbes

#ukpolitics It was assumed a year or two ago that #uklabour had become a highly disciplined party which had 'the shortest way with dissenters' - to quote #danieldefoe ! This view has been reinforced by books cataloguing the summary treatment of #jeremycorbyn and many others lesser known. However this is not easy to reconcile with the difficulties #uklabour has had in the #houseofcommons more recently and the series of changes to government policy that have ensued.
#RobinsonCrusoe[a] (/ˈkruːsoʊ/ KROO-soh) is an English adventure novel by #DanielDefoe, first published on 25 April 1719. It is often credited as marking the beginning of realistic fiction as a