Island of the Lost
Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

This is a book that’s based on a very true story, basically put together using the survivors’ journals with some added information. The story is actually quite simple. Two separate groups of shipwreck survivors are stranded on opposite ends of the same island without being aware of the other group.......more

I checked this book out from the library today, started reading it after dinner, and could not put it down or go to bed until I finished it! I read a fair number of sailing non-fiction books and am no stranger to accounts of shipwrecks, but Druett's talented writing and immediate ability to turn the......more

When I was a child, I read the book Robinson Crusoe. That book hooked me on survival stories. This is a non-fiction story about two shipwrecks on Auckland Island in 1864. One ship was the Grafton with a crew of five; the other was the Invercauld with a crew of twenty-five. These two crews were wreck......more

This is one of those stories of survival against the odds that makes one look inward and think: How would I have dealt with the situation? It's the story of a shipwreck on a remote and uninhabited island south of New Zealand. The year is 1863. The ship is a sailing vessel. The weather is foul, the o......more