'I take pride withal in my humiliation, and as I am to this privilege condemned, almost I find joy in an abhorrent salvation; I am, I believe, alone of all our race, the only man in human memory to have been shipwrecked and cast up upon a deserted ship'
Long time since I first read this book, but it sits there on the shelf, remembered for this opening line that grabbed me and compelled me to dive in 😊 #openinglines