Angus Ross
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Academy Awardʼ winner Russell Crowe (Gladiator, L.A. Confidential) directs and stars in this post-war drama that follows an Australian man who travels to Turkey after the tragic World War I Battle of Gallipoli in search of his three missing sons. Also starring The November Man's Olga Kurylenko and Divergent's Jai Courtney, Crowe's directorial debut was shot on location in Turkey and the wilds of the Australian Outback.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 12.3 - AR Pts: 27
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"Widely acknowledged as the first English novel, Daniel Defoe's adventure story of a shipwrecked sailor became an instant classic upon its publication in 1719 and the yardstick for countless castaway narratives to follow." "Robinson Crusoe, an English sailor, finds himself marooned on a desert island after the rest of his shipmates drown in a terrible wreck. He survives on the island for nearly three decades, domesticating livestock, cultivating plants,...