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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

ISLAND of THE LOST

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.—1st ed.
     p. cm.
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN-13: 978-1-56512-408-0 (hardcover)
1. Shipwrecks—New Zealand—Auckland Islands. 2. Grafton (Schooner).

3. Invercauld (Ship) 4. Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc.—New Zealand—Auckland Islands. 5. Auckland Islands (N.Z.)—Description and travel. I. Title.

G525.D78 2007
919.3'99—dc22

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.

—Southland News
, July 29, 1865

The man who has experienced shipwreck shudders even at a calm sea.

—Ovid

CONTENTS

ONE A Sturdy Vessel

TWO Open Sea

THREE The Islands

FOUR Wrecked

FIVE Shelter

SIX Prey

SEVEN The Cabin

EIGHT Democracy

NINE Routine

TEN Dire Necessity

ELEVEN The Jaws of Hell

TWELVE Privation

THIRTEEN The Hunt

FOURTEEN Equinox

FIFTEEN Summer

SIXTEEN Raynal's Forge

SEVENTEEN Boats

EIGHTEEN Escape

NINETEEN Deliverance

TWENTY A Sentiment of Humanity

TWENTY-ONE Rescue

TWENTY-TWO Reunion

TWENTY-THREE Answers

Aftermath

Author's Note

ISLAND of THE LOST

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