Author: Thomas MUSGRAVE (Captain.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Castaway on the Auckland Isles: a Narrative of the Wreck of the “Grafton,” from the Private Journals of Capt. T. Musgrave, with a Map, and Some Account of the Aucklands. Edited by J. J. Shillinglaw, Etc
Author: Thomas MUSGRAVE (Captain.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
Castaway on the Auckland Isles
Author: Thomas MusgravePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Auckland Islands (N.Z.)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Castaway on the Auckland Isles
Author: Thomas MusgravePublisher: London : Lockwood
ISBN:
Category : Auckland Islands
Languages : en
Pages : 214
Book Description
Account of shipwreck and life on the Aucklands for 20 months; journey in a Phoenix boat built from the wreckage, to Port Adventure, Stewart Island, N.Z." ... almost a classic."--Maggs.
British Museum Catalogue of printed Books
Author: General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 456
Book Description
Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British LibraryThe British Museum Catalogue of Printed Books, 1881-1900
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1010
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
Island of the Lost
Author: Joan DruettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book 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, it is one of the most inhospitable places on earth. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death. Incredibly, at the same time on the opposite end of the island, another ship runs aground during a storm. Separated by only twenty miles and the island's treacherous, impassable cliffs, the crews of the Grafton and the Invercauld face the same fate. And yet where the Invercauld's crew turns inward on itself, fighting, starving, and even turning to cannibalism, Musgrave's crew bands together to build a cabin and a forge--and eventually, to find a way to escape. Using the survivors' journals and historical records, award-winning maritime historian Joan Druett brings to life this extraordinary untold story about leadership and the fine line between order and chaos.