Shipwreck survivor James Morrill washed up on the Far North QLD coast in 1846, living with Aboriginal people for 17 years before re-assimilating into European society.
In this episode I read out James' book about his experience, published in 1864, and compare it to my own in 2021, where I tried to escape his predicament in a homemade dugout canoe.
Listen to Modern-Day Castaway, my self-read audiobook about my journey up the Great Barrier Reef in a dugout canoe to escape James predicament.
Hard copy books containing James account
Captive of Empire - Bruce Breslin (this is the one I mentioned that also delves into the Aboriginal context and issues of the period)
Mogoer Munya - John Elliot
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