Description 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.
Algonquin Books Island of the lost: an extraordinary story of survival at the edge of the world, paperback/joan druett
