The story is based on Karana's survival skills and self-reliance. She has to go through the stages of learning to do everything for herself with no one to protect her. In learning to provide herself with everything she needs, she not only overcomes her fears, she finds she is quite capable of performing every necessary task and more. She learns who her enemies are and when to trust them, how much food and water to store and how to protect it and numerous other tasks that in her past were always performed by the men.
Similar to the famous book Robinson Crusoe, Karana finds herself as a person and a human through her soul-searching adventures alone on the island. The environment surrounding her tests her courage and yet also allows her to find inspiration to keep.....
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