Last year katie’s review of Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World put it on my radar. I was in a run of adding “bad things happen to good boats” to my reading diet (Madhouse at the End of the Earth, Ghost Ship) and this fell right into that book category. Joan Druett’s book chronicles the two different ships that wrecked on the Auckland Islands south of New Zealand in 1864. However, the available primary sources (and more interesting survival story) means that her work is more heavily about the Grafton and its five-man crew who all survived their nearly two years on the […]