Charles Fenn, a sixty-year-old writer, set off from Ceylon with a friend to sail to the Maldive Islands. But what started as a leisurely holiday turned into a nightmare when his friend was drowned during a storm and he himself marooned on a remote atoll. Fenn had little but a few tins of food he had managed to salvage, a pencil stub, and enough paper to keep a diary.
In this diary, he chronicles the day-to-day struggle to stay alive, alternating his accounts of hunger and thirst, of fishing and fire-lighting, of improvisation and experiment, with his notes for a book he was planning on the New Veda. The resulting soliloquies cover an impressive range of subjects from Chinese culture to the life of beetles, marriage, sex, and death."synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.
SEAN PIDGEON was born in Reading, England, and studied physics and astrophysics at the University of Manchester. He subsequently began a career in science publishing as a book editor, working at Oxford University Press and Macmillan. He moved to the United States in 1990 and is currently vice-president and publisher at John Wiley & Sons in Hoboken, New Jersey. He lives in New Jersey with his family. Visit him online at www.seanpidgeon.com or on Facebook
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