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Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World
by Joan Druett
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Synopsis : ?Hundreds of miles from?civilization, two ships wreck on opposite ends of the same deserted island in?this true story?of human nature at its best?and at its worst.It is 1864, and Captain Thomas Musgrave?s schooner, the?Grafton, has just wrecked on Auckland?Island, a forbidding piece of land 285 miles?south of New Zealand. Battered by?year-round freezing rain and constant winds, it is one of the most inhospitable?places on earth. To be?shipwrecked there means almost certain death.Incredibly, at the same time on the opposite end of the?island, another ship runs aground during a storm. Separated?by only twenty?miles and the island?s treacherous, impassable cliffs, the crews of the?Grafton?and the?Invercauld?face the same fate. And yet where the?Invercauld?s?crew turns inward on?itself, fighting, starving, and even turning to cannibalism, Musgrave?s crew bands?together to build a cabin and a forge?and eventually, to find a way to escape. Using the survivors? journals and historical
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Author : Joan Druett
Pages : 304 pages
Publisher : Algonquin Books
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ISBN-10 : 1616209704
ISBN-13 : 9781616209704