An Extraordinary Story of Survival at the Edge of the World
by Joan Druett
appears in Survival, Action & Adventure, and History.
?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 sout...
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Consider Endurance by Alfred Lansing. Recommended by 25 sources.
“This reconstruction of Shackleton's doomed Antarctic expedition reads like a real-time logbook, immersing you in the men's daily struggle against ice, starvation, and despair. The value is unfiltered immediacy: you feel every moment of monotony and peril as they did. The limitation is its strict reliance on contemporaneous sources—it rarely steps back for analysis or emotional interiority, so depth comes from cumulative detail rather than introspection. If you want to know what they did, not necessarily how they felt inside, this delivers.”
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