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Neville, Henry (1620 - 1694), The Isle of Pines, [The Wayzgoose…
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28-Nov-2021
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Neville, Henry (1620 - 1694), The Isle of Pines, [The Wayzgoose Press, Katoomba, 1991], Illustrated in colour and black & white by Mike Hudson. Introduction by James Rigney. With red and black papered slipcase. Edition limited to 55 numbered copies handset by Jadwiga Jarvis and designed and bound by Mike Hudson; signed by the publishers; this being No.4 of 45 thus bound. Originally published in pamphlet form in 1688, The Isle of Pines is the earliest work of fiction to use Terra Australis Incognita as its setting. It has been cited as the first 'robinsonade' before Defoe's work. It is also one of the early Utopian narratives, along with Thomas More's Utopia and Francis Bacon's New Atlantis. An example of arcadian fiction, the book presents its story through an Epistolary frame: a 'Letter to a friend in London, declaring the truth of his Voyage to the East Indies' written by a fictional Dutchman 'Henry Cornelius Van Sloetten,' concerning the discovery of an island in the southern hemisphere, populated by the descendants of a small group of castaways. The book explores the story of these castaways?the British George Pine, and four female survivors, who are shipwrecked on an idyllic island. Pine finds that the island produces food abundantly with little or no effort, and he soon enjoys a leisurely existence, engaging in open sexual activity with the four women. Each of the women gives birth to children, who in turn multiply to produce distinct tribes, by which Pine is seen as the patriarch.
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