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Lost Island is a romantic novel about escaping from New York City and into a voyage on a schooner toward the unknown sea Jane Carey who is the protagonist finds love a deserted island and struggles with civilization and yet on her mind is always the iridescent merry nature Lost Island is undoubtedly Follett s masterpiece in which she develops her themes of love escape nature worship and takes the reader on a romantic adventure into her world Lost IslandI m Barbara s half nephew and publisher of Barbara Newhall Follett A Life in Letters Farksolia 2015 I warn potential readers of this edition that it s full of errors and was not authorized by me nor Barbara s family. Lost island book In 2020 I ve published a better edition also on Farksolia called Lost Island plus three stories and an afterword The other stories are Rocks thrilling Katahdin adventure Travels Without a Donkey account of hike canoe trip through Maine in the summer of 1932 following the path of the Appalachian Trail and Walking the Mallorcan Coast ten days backpacking in 1933 My afterword describes Barbara s life following her meeting of Edward Anderson at sea in 1929 Lost Island is dedicated to E. The lost boys of bird island pdf download com book show 5 Paperback This book pulled at my heart The author has an endearing writing style that invokes such emotion Lush and vibrant dreamy yet genuine I found myself lost in this story and at one with the characters Highly recommend Paperback I just finished this one last night actually It is in reality several stories At least the book I have is Lost Island of course and a few other stories by Ms Follett of her travels with Nickerson Rogers A very great read She was amazing And still is amazing Paperback Lost Island is than just a story about love and adventure it is a story that parallels the author s own life in many ways A wonderful story that read in the context of the real world people it was portraying makes you really get into each character even It s sad that this was her last book as she possibly could have received recognition as a writer again had her life went differently The afterword was well done and a very intriguing read especially if you don t know the history The three appendices were a great addition Travels Without a Donkey was the standout for me but they were all great reads Recommend Paperback An excellent read that was both inspiring Jane s resilience in the last part of Lost Island and depressing lost of beauty at the same time You really get a feel for Barbara Newhall Follett s personality through her writings and her fierce love for freedom and nature The three extra stories were also enjoyable but my favorite part of the entire book was the afterword which detailed Follett s life and her haunting disappearance Thank you Stefan Cooke for bringing Follett s name and works back into the public light and allowing us readers to learn about a talented writer Paperback
Barbara Newhall Follett born March 4 1914 December 7 1939 disappeared was an American child prodigy novelist Her first novel The House Without Windows was published in 1927 when she was thirteen years old Her next novel The Voyage of the Norman D.
Lost island waterloo In 1939 she became depressed with her marriage and walked out of her apartment with just thirty dollars when she was 25 years old She was never seen again site_link Barbara Newhall Follett born March 4 1914 December 7 1939 disappeared was an American child prodigy novelist Her first novel The House Without Windows was published in 1927 when she was thirteen years old Her next novel The Voyage of the Norman D.
Book about a group of boys lost on an island In 1939 she became depressed with her marriage and walked out of her apartment with just thirty dollars when she was 25 years old She was never seen again site_link site_link Publisher s Weekly Follett who published her 1927 novel The House Without Windows at age 12 before disappearing in 1939 left in her papers this engaging story of a restless young woman Jane Carey tired of soothing her friends troubles and bored with her job as an entomologist s secretary yearns for the wildness of her Maine childhood which she fled after leaving her fianc at the altar She impetuously signs up to join the crew of the schooner Annie Marlow and once on board endears herself to the other sailors especially the captain she reminds him of his deceased daughter and Davidson a Joseph Conrad adoring second mate When the ship goes down in a squall only Jane and Davidson survive drifting on the open sea They eventually land on an uninhabited island where they rhapsodize their primitive lifestyle and fall in love After three years a research team arrives on the island and rescues them despite their hesitation to return to modernity Back in New York their choices pull them apart as Jane grapples with reintegrating into her old life The zesty ratatat dialogue echoes the era s screwball comedies and the plot flies by It s a strange thrill to encounter this assured young writer s voice emerging from the ether.
Book lost and broken by adam smith Unfortunately PW appears not to have read Barbara s other three stories included in the Farksolia edition nor my afterword Paperback Publisher s Weekly who published her 1927 novel The House Without Windows at age 12 before disappearing in 1939 left in her papers this engaging story of a restless young woman Jane Carey tired of soothing her friends troubles and bored with her job as an entomologist s secretary yearns for the wildness of her Maine childhood which she fled after leaving her fianc at the altar She impetuously signs up to join the crew of the schooner Annie Marlow and once on board endears herself to the other sailors especially the captain she reminds him of his deceased daughter and Davidson a Joseph Conrad adoring second mate When the ship goes down in a squall only Jane and Davidson survive drifting on the open sea They eventually land on an uninhabited island where they rhapsodize their primitive lifestyle and fall in love After three years a research team arrives on the island and rescues them despite their hesitation to return to modernity Back in New York their choices pull them apart as Jane grapples with reintegrating into her old life The zesty ratatat dialogue echoes the era s screwball comedies and the plot flies by It s a strange thrill to encounter this assured young writer s voice emerging from the ether.
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