The man who the novel "Strandloper" is based on lived with what community after being given up for dead?
William Buckley (convict) William Buckley (178030 January 1856) was an English convict who was transported to Australia, escaped, was given up for dead, and lived in an Aboriginal community for many years.
Józef Stawinoga Józef Stawinoga (15 December 1920 – 28 October 2007), also known as Fred and incorrectly reported as Josef, was a homeless Polish man who lived in a tent on the Wolverhampton Ring Road in the West Midlands, England for nearly 40 years. Little is known about the recluse, but he is thought to have been involved in the 1939 Soviet invasion of Poland, before emigrating to the UK in the 1940s.