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About Gerald Kingsland
- Gerald W.
- Kingsland (8 March 1930 – 20 March 2000) was a journalist, adventurer, and writer, born and raised in Whitchurch, Buckinghamshire, England.
- He had five sons and two daughters from five marriages.
- He died from a heart attack at age 70 in London, England. After a stint in the British Army where he fought in combat during the Korean War in 1951, he became a successful journalist and publisher in England, then a wine grower in Italy.
- In 1980 he set out to become a modern Robinson Crusoe seeking a remote tropical island where he could be self-sufficient together with a female companion.
- He advertised in Time Out magazine in 1980 for a woman to share life with him on a deserted island.
- When Kingsland was 49, he met up with 24-year-old Lucy Irvine.
- They went to Tuin Island, in the Torres Strait between Australia and Papua New Guinea, uninhabited and lacking a dependable water supply, where they nearly perished, but were saved by Badu Islanders.
- Kingsland and Irvine wrote separate accounts of their adventure.
- His book, The Islander was published in 1984.
- Irvine's Castaway was published in 1983.
- The story was also depicted in the film Castaway.
- Kingsland was portrayed by Oliver Reed.
- The role of Lucy Irvine was played by Amanda Donohoe.
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