Modern Day Castaway. A Real-Life Survival Adventure

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Michael Atkinson
Publisher Place: Australia
Publisher Year: 2023
Edition: First Edition

Description: 244 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. Signed by Author

Publishers Description: Could you survive alone, for 2 months at sea in a dugout canoeIn 1846, James Morrill survived a shipwreck on Australias north coast. Though the young sailor was then embraced by the local Indigenous community, in Modern-Day Castaway, Michael Atkinson asks, Could James have built a vessel and made the perilous journey to a historic rescue haven in the Torres StraitWith the cyclone season fast approaching, Alone Australia contestant and solo adventurer, Mike Atkinson, sets sail on an extraordinary 1500-kilometre journey to the northern tip of Australia. His aim: to live entirely off the land and sea.As malnourishment drains his body, Mike navigates his failing dugout canoe through the treacherous waters of the Great Barrier Reef, and along the wild and unforgiving coastline of Cape York. From crocodile defence tactics, to calamitous canoe failure, to fishing with adapted Indigenous tools, Modern-Day Castaway journals Mikes epic struggle for survival."Adventurer and survival expert Mike Atkinson will take you on a journey you will never forget."-Luke Richmond, author of One Life One Chance.Modern Day Castaway has 264 pages and includes 125 photos and drawings that depict;building the canoelife at seaspearing food with traditional spear and woomerabush-tucker (bush foods)survival skills19th century navigationAboriginal Elders and rock arthistoric shipwreck survivorsthe toll on Mikes mind and body, andencounters with sharks, crocodiles, dolphins and dingoes.This is a truly unique book. A cross between Tom Hanks Castaway (although this story is real, not fiction!), a genuine shipwrecked sailors tale and Mikes awe-inspiring journey of discovery.

ISBN: 9780645805802