Travel in the light of the stars

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Journeys in the Light of the Stars is a book written in 2005 by the Swiss writer Alex Capus .

It comes up with the surprising thesis that Robert Louis Stevenson , author of the famous adventure novel Treasure Island , may have known such an island and exploited its treasure, and that he only shared this secret and the loot with his "clan" with whom he was spent the last 5 years of his life in Samoa - not far from the island of Tafahi , Dutch "Cocos Eylandt". This coconut island, according to another thesis in the book, could have been the one on which the legendary church treasure of Lima was actually buried (after a drift similar to that of the Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl ) - and not on the much better known coconut island. Island off Costa Rica , where hosts of adventurers searched in vain for almost 200 years. These theses are supported by a wealth of other evidence, e.g. For example, that the passionate South Sea navigator and writer Stevenson never mentioned "his" coconut island Tafahi with a syllable; that his fate - especially his sudden, enigmatic wealth - bears a suspicious resemblance to that of Keawe, the hero of his tale The Bottle Devil ; and that his supposed well-being on Samoa - Stevenson had suffered from tuberculosis since his youth - is just as much a legend he created as the supposedly harmonious coexistence with his "clan". Capus bases his theses on research by Walter Hurni.

The English faction is perhaps the closest to the genre for this work . The author deals with real people and events, but does so more narrative than scientifically factual; his theses are apparently meant seriously and are nevertheless not presented with the claim to present a "watertight" proof. The book therefore bears the subtitle “A presumption”.

The TV broadcaster ProSieben took up on the occasion of the self-filming of Die Schatzinsel Capus' alleged scientific results, but did not highlight the fictional part, but presented the entire investigation as truth.

expenditure

  • Alex Capus: Traveling in the light of the stars. A guess . Albrecht Knaus Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 978-3-8135-0251-0 (bound first edition)
  • Alex Capus: Traveling in the light of the stars. A guess . btb, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-442-73659-1 (paperback)
  • Alex Capus: Traveling in the light of the stars . Random House Audio, Cologne 2007, ISBN 978-3-86604-593-4 (audio book, spoken by Dieter Moor )

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