CRITIQUE – We reread these superhuman exploits with total respect and unfeigned admiration.
After Amélie Nothom b with her podcast on Japan which became an album (Albin Michel), it is the turn of Daniel Fiévet to see her series Castaways-A true storybroadcast in 26 episodes on France Inter, became a beautiful album published by Julliard.
In summary, eight extraordinary adventures, eight incredible but true survival stories, richly illustrated and enriched with maps, paintings and original drawings by Nicolas Vial and Aleksi Cavaillez.
Of the infamous massacre of Batavia in 1629 to the shipwreck of Alain Bombard in 1952, the whole range of emotions is brought together here. Simon Leys wrote a famous book on The Shipwrecked of the Batavia in which he compares this maritime disaster, the shipwreck, off the coast of Australia, at the beginning of the 17theof a liner during its maiden voyage, to the drama of Titanic. But as Daniel Fiévet shows, in the case of Bataviathe survivors, nearly 250, were not rescued by other ships, but were stranded on a desert islet. There they found themselves…
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