Robert Ames Bennet

Into the Primitive Robert Ames Bennet

A classic novel, originally published in 1908 and featured in silent film in 1916, Into the Primitive illustrates the lives of a band of castaways from a passenger ship crossing the ocean, who find their way to a deserted island in the middle of the stormy seas. Into the Primitive offers a look into the lives of a small group of people left to fend for themselves in a remote wilderness. What becomes of them in this harsh environment? Their social training smothered by their need to survive. Follow these hardy souls as they struggle with their new world, forging an existence where none have before them, hanging on to the last shreds on their sanity, their dignity, and their lives!