Desert Islands

Walter de la Mare

Illustrated by Rex Whistler

Desert Islands opens with a captivating essay on the romance of islands and castaways in literature and life. The essay leads on to over 200 pages of what De la Mare himself calls "a rambling commentary"—a commonplace book on every conceivable aspect of this teeming subject, culled from a lifetime's reading on wrecks, pirates, utopias, and (of course) Daniel Defoe.

Walter de la Mare (1873–1956) wrote numerous novels, short stories, essays, and poems. He was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Memoirs of a Midget (also published by Paul Dry Books).

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