It doesn't come close to encompassing the desperation of the escaper, the fear of the clandestine, the boredom of the itinerant, the lung-filled panic of the shipwrecked, the desolation of those who actually make it only to find Europe doesn't want them.
Bill Wallauer, a wildlife videographer for the Jane Goodall Institute who wore the camera equipment, said: "If you were shipwrecked and you washed up on shore, this is the paradise you would want to land in".
Renouncing his signature achievement as governor would be fatal to a candidate whose 2008 campaign was shipwrecked by flip-flops on abortion, gay rights, gun control and immigration.
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And Italy this week had to rescue two dozen shipwrecked Africans clinging to a tuna pen in the Mediterranean, after Malta and Libya could not agree over who should save them).
The army has issued blanket denials of any ill treatment without fully explaining what actually happened to the shipwrecked Rohingyas.
In that novel the resourceful Robinson Crusoe, shipwrecked on a remote island, saves and replants four quarts of barley.
(They also killed the last goats, which was probably fair enough since the shipwrecked now had other options, including vegetables grown in experimental arrays of hydroponic tanks, the island lacking the fertile soil needed for their support).In the 1960s Ascension found itself again on the way to somewhere: space.
Knivet, who stayed on board, escaped only to be shipwrecked again, and to begin his diet of crab and whale meat in solitary confinement on the beach.With no prospect of returning home he could either surrender to the Portuguese who might or might not execute him or try his luck with the Indians.
Lawyers for the Florida relations of Elian, whose mother died when the launch in which they fled Cuba was shipwrecked, said they would appeal.Opinion polls suggested that Peru's president, Alberto Fujimori, was facing a tougher battle than expected in his bid for a constitutionally questionable third term in next month's election.
THE story of Elián González, a small, shipwrecked Cuban boy who was at the centre of an international custody battle in 2000, should have taught even the most militant American opponent of Cuba's Communist president, Fidel Castro, that splitting families makes for bad politics.
