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Ebook About “Riveting.” —The New York Times Book Review 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 records, award-winning maritime historian Joan Druett brings to life this extraordinary untold story about leadership and the fine line between order and chaos.Book Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World Review :
I am an engineer and in a position to appreciate how hard the tasks accomplished by these shipwrecked men were. Especially impressive was Raynal, the Frenchman from the Grafton. I am not sure I could even duplicate his bird cage, much less his concrete chimney or his handmade nails or his new boat made out of the old shipwreck. I read in the epilogue that original account published of the Grafton shipwreck by the survivors ignited a craze at the time to steer away from technology and get back to first principles like gardening, and shipmaking. I feel the same way today.I have read several of these 19th century adventure books, like Ernest Shackelton's polar voyage and George De Long's experience on the USS Jeanette wreck. This ranks right up there among the best of these.It contrasts the experience of two sets of castaways on the same deserted island in the Southern Ocean south of Australia. The island is forbidding in the extreme with terrible year-round weather, high craggy cliffs, low wind-twisted trees and scrub brush, and a pestilence of biting black flies and blue-bottle flies.The first set of shipwreck survivors provides the Shackelton example of both moral and physical leadership leading to a 100% survival rate for all the castaways of the Grafton. The second set of castaways resembles the "Lord of the Flies". The second set of castaways from the Invercauld has about a 10% survival rate and experience a wide range of the worst in human behavior.My impression is that both sets of castaways carried this great and horrible experience with them for the rest of their lives. The Grafton castaways learns timeless lessons about leadership and courage, while the Invercauld crew learns fear and loathing and recrimination that likely haunted them for the rest of their lives. Joan Druett’s wonderful account of two ships which wrecked on New Zealand’s sub-Antarctic Auckland Islands is masterfully done. Never just a dry account of the tasks required for survival, she paints portraits of the two crews with all their strengths and shortcomings.Although the two ships smashed into the forbidding rocky coasts within a short period of each other, neither knew the other was there.Captain Musgrave exhibited good leadership and, that along with the skill and ingenuity of the Frenchman Raynal, resulted in all five men to survive. Misfortune struck the Scottish ship, being burdened with a weak captain and a crew unwilling to do what was required to live.The book has special meaning to us, as we were two of the very few people allowed to visit these islands a few years ago on a small expeditionary ship. We walked among the Royal Albatrosses on Campbell Island, and made our way past beachmasters , Hookers sea lions, on Enderby Island. The biggest surprise in the book was no mention of penguins, which today are quite abundant. The yellow-eyed penguin populates Enderby, and the Snares penguin is endemic to Snares Island. One is not allowed to walk on Snares because it is covered with nests of 5 million pairs of sooty shearwaters on the fragile peat. It’s a sight one doesn’t forget when, at dusk, the sky is black as these birds return from a day hunting at sea to feed their chicks. Read Online Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World Download Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World PDF Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World Mobi Free Reading Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World Download Free Pdf Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World PDF Online Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World Mobi Online Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World Reading Online Island of the Lost: An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World Read Online Joan Druett Download Joan Druett Joan Druett PDF Joan Druett Mobi Free Reading Joan Druett Download Free Pdf Joan Druett PDF Online Joan Druett Mobi Online Joan Druett Reading Online Joan DruettDownload Mobi Still Life with Crows (Pendergast Series Book 4) By Douglas Preston,Lincoln Child
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