Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time

Shipwrecks are the perfect metaphor for when boats crash

Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific by Coll Thrush

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Cbr18 Bingo – Map: the book includes maps of the area. It talks about mapping colonialism narratives. And it’s about people who definitely used maps on the ships. Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific by Coll Thrush is about an area in the Pacific Northwest where thousands of boats have wrecked because of weather and geography conditions. But the book isn’t about climate, it’s about people. With colonialism comes ships. And with ships, come shipwrecks. Thrush writes about indigenous people being blamed […]

Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

Island of the Lost by Joan Druett

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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 […]

A harrowing story of shipwreck, death and survival on a godforsaken island at the edge of the world

Island of the Lost by Joan Druett

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Never has a description been more true. This is an absolutely incredible true story, and the author Joan Druett has some a marvellous job bringing it to life. This was a re-read for me, after first reading it several years ago. The story stayed with me, and I was glad I revisited it to refresh my memory. We follow the Grafton as it sets off from Sydney in 1864; it’s five man crew, led by Captain Thomas Musgrave and his business partner Francois Raynal, is […]

Maude Horton’s (Not So) Glorious (Semi) Revenge

Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge by Lizzie Pook

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Thanks to NetGalley and Simon & Schuster for the ARC. It hasn’t affected the content of my review. Okay, first, I’m going to take the chance here that I’m going to sound ungrateful, but I mean this in the spirit of genuine feedback. Only giving out a PDF file for your ARC does not really encourage readers. It is very hard to read, limiting the devices on which it can be read. I could only read on my phone, which is a guaranteed recipe for […]

Underwater archaeology

 Shipwrecked!: Diving for Hidden Time Capsules on the Ocean Floor by Martin W. Sandler

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Relation”ship” cbr15bingo  Because SHIPwrecks!  I officially did not finish the book, Shipwrecked!: Diving for Hidden Time Capsules on the Ocean Floor. But I did get about halfway through before I realized I really could not  finish. There is a lot of technical science and that is not my thing. It can be text heavy, and I needed a more uninterrupted setting to read.  However, what I did read was really very good. Things are heavy on the facts, the information and the technology. If you have […]



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