A Dutch Castaway on Ascension Island in 1725 by Alex Ritsema

A Dutch Castaway on Ascension Island in 1725

Alex Ritsema

148 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history informative reflective medium-paced
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On 5 May 1725 a Dutch ship's officer, Leendert Hasenbosch, was set ashore on the desert island of Ascension in the South Atlantic Ocean, as a punishment for sodomy. He tried to survive on turtles and birds but found very little water on the barren...

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