The kind of book you think about when your not reading it. Read it in less than 2 days. Really enjoyed this real life tale of survival which happened in the 1800’s but its written in current vernacular. Interesting portrayal of how some groups survive vs. perish depending on the way they organize themselves and how ingenuity can make the impossible happen. Don’t read it if clubbing seals is too much to handle. Not overly graphic but not pleasant to read. They had to eat so its part of the story. Learning about the animals behaviors was interesting overall.
Auckland Island is a godforsaken place in the middle of the Southern Ocean, 285 miles south of New Zealand. With year-round freezing rain and howling winds, it is one of the most forbidding places in the world. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death.
In 1864 Captain Thomas Musgrave and his crew of four aboard the schooner Grafton wreck on the southern end of the island. Utterly alone in a dense coastal forest, plagued by stinging blowflies and relentless rain, Captain Musgrave—rather than succumb to this dismal fate—inspires his men to take action. With barely more than their bare hands, they build a cabin and, remarkably, a forge, where they manufacture their tools. Under Musgrave’s leadership, they band together and remain civilized through even the darkest and most terrifying days.
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Incredibly, at the same time on the opposite end of the island—twenty miles of impassable cliffs and chasms away—the Invercauld wrecks during a horrible storm. Nineteen men stagger ashore. Unlike Captain Musgrave, the captain of the Invercauld falls apart given the same dismal circumstances. His men fight and split up; some die of starvation, others turn to cannibalism. Only three survive. Musgrave and all of his men not only endure for nearly two years, they also plan their own astonishing escape, setting off on one of the most courageous sea voyages in history.
Using the survivors’ journals and historical records, award-winning maritime historian Joan Druett brings this extraordinary untold story to life, a story about leadership and the fine line between order and chaos.
Info For Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
- Paperback: 272 pages ( Download PDF :
) - Publisher: Algonquin Books (May 17, 2007)
- Author: Joan Druett
- ISBN-10: 1565124081
- ISBN-13: 978-1565124080
- Language: English
About the Author
Native New Zealander JOAN DRUETT is the author of eleven books on maritime history and historical fiction. She has been the recipient of a PEN/Hubert Church Award, a Fulbright Fellowship, and the John Lyman Award for Best Book of American Maritime History. She was a consultant for the award-winning “Seafaring Women” exhibition and has appeared as a guest speaker at maritime museums across the country. While much of her research is carried out in the United States, she lives in Wellington, New Zealand, with her husband, Ron.
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