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Boon Island : Including Contemporary Accounts of the Wreck of the Nottingham Gallery, Paperback Book

Boon Island : Including Contemporary Accounts of the Wreck of the Nottingham Gallery Paperback

Edited by Jack Bales, Richard Warner

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This classic tale of shipwreck and survival is reprinted in a new edition, with essays that provide a historical perspective and trace the sources from which Kenneth Roberts (1885-1957) drew his tale.

A native Mainer, Roberts, whose historical novels include Northwest Passage and Arundel, was intrigued by the story of the December 1710 wreck of the Nottingham.

After running aground a dozen miles offshore, the ship broke up, stranding her crew with minimal tools, scant shelter, and a few pieces of cheese.

The men survived nearly a month of screeching gales, sub-freezing temperatures, and driving snowstorms.

During their ordeal they resorted to cannibalism and were finally rescued after one of them made it ashore on a crude raft.

Included here are contemporary accounts from crew members, offering dramatically different versions of the true-life traumatic event and a fascinating counterpoint to Roberts' fictionalized version.

A bestseller when published in 1956, Boon Island is a story of the ways that crisis can inspire the best--and worst--in human nature.

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