Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World by Joan Druett
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Joan Druett's Island of the Lost is an impeccably researched, well-written, well-presented history of two concurrent wrecks on the Auckland Islands in the late 19th century.
Her easy style balances journalistic integrity with the need to captivate the reader, and holds you from the first paragraph and never lags.
Overall, the stories of these two groups of shipwrecked sailors is a keen contrast between the higher ideals and purposes of humans, and our more base, predatory instincts. In fact, the actions of these real, historical people will both astonish and disgust you.
Oh, and now Auckland Islands is now the second place on earth I would never wish to visit unless I had a death-wish.
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