An echo and a reimagining of Daniel Dafoe’s 1719 novel “Robinson Crusoe,” the first “Swiss ... story of the only family known to have been shipwrecked together. Pearl unfolds this tale ...

about his escape from a Caribbean penal colony and being shipwrecked and marooned for thirty years on an uninhabited island, Salt Tortuga, off Venezuela. Severin argues Robinson Crusoe was published ...

Part adventurer, part hermit, part conservationist, Mr. Morandi attracted international fascination with a story that in its most dramatic moments seemed drawn from shipwreck epics of centuries past.