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Authors: Joan Druett
Island of the Lost
ISLAND of THE LOST
Also by Joan Druett
NONFICTION
In the Wake of Madness
Rough Medicine
She Captains
Hen Frigates
The Sailing Circle (with Mary Anne Wallace)
Captain's Daughter, Coasterman's Wife
“She Was a Sister Sailor” (editor)
Petticoat Whalers
Fulbright in New Zealand
Exotic Intruders
FICTION
Run Afoul
Shark Island
A Watery Grave
Abigail
A Promise of Gold
Murder at the Brian Boru
Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World
JOAN DRUETT
Published by
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Post Office Box 2225
Chapel Hill, north Carolina 27515-2225
a division of
Workman Publishing
225 Varick Street
New York, New York 10014
© 2007 by Joan Druett. All rights reserved.
Printed in the United States of America.
Published simultaneously in Canada by Thomas Allen & Son Limited.
Design by Tracy Baldwin.
Illustration on page iii © by Ron Druett.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Druett, Joan.
Island of the lost : shipwrecked at the edge of the world / by Joan Druett.â1st ed.
     p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN-13: 978-1-56512-408-0 (hardcover)
1. ShipwrecksâNew ZealandâAuckland Islands. 2. Grafton (Schooner).
3. Invercauld (Ship) 4. Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.âNew ZealandâAuckland Islands. 5. Auckland Islands (N.Z.)âDescription and travel. I. Title.
G525.D78 2007
919.3'99âdc22
2006031636
10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1
First Edition
For Roberta McIntyre,
whose early encouragement
could not have been
more well timed
.
It has seldom fallen to our lot as journalists to record a more remarkable instance of escape from the perils of shipwreck, and subsequent providential deliverance from the privations of a desolate island, after two years' sojourn, than that we have now to furnish.
âSouthland News
, July 29, 1865
The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.
âOvid
CONTENTSTWENTY A Sentiment of Humanity
ISLAND of THE LOST