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Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World by Joan Druett
2 reviews
The graphically detailed animal death in this book was quite literally the nail in the coffin for me. While I understand this is a book about survival and also taken from the diaries of the men who experienced it, I did not need to hear about bashing sea lions brains in, sea lion blood and guts, killing the female and baby sea lions, and crushing birds to death in such graphic detail. This genuinely made me so nauseous and I hate to DNF a book club book, but this is unfortunately one of my trigger warnings that I can’t get past.
I don’t know what happened to these men seeing as I didn’t finish the book, but I hope they all died a slow and painful death ❤️
Outside of those issues with the story, I found this to be incredibly dry when it really could have been dramatized up a bit seeing as it really is a fascinating tale.
I don’t know what happened to these men seeing as I didn’t finish the book, but I hope they all died a slow and painful death ❤️
Outside of those issues with the story, I found this to be incredibly dry when it really could have been dramatized up a bit seeing as it really is a fascinating tale.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death
informative
slow-paced
I'm sure I was more interested by this because I come from New Zealand. I was happy to see a cast of native birds and aquatic mammals that are familiar.. and I kept a map open so I could peruse the terrain of the book. These islands are much bigger than I had thought.
The narrator had a good go at the reo Māori, and got most of it about right.. though words like "Ngāti" had him a bit at a loss (hint: not n'Gaat-ee ; soft ng sound like in sing)
I do like a good survival story and was surprised that this book contained more than one. Comparing the strategies and attitudes of two sets of castaways enriched my understanding of what it was like for them. I enjoyed the accounts of how shelter and housing was accomplished, and I'm not too squeamish about having to hunt to survive. I loved looking up the edible plants as I went. Some of the things that were in the reports and memoirs of the lost, were a little fanciful, but why not.
This was a really good counterpoint to that awful whale book 😉 because it actually contained an account of what it is like to be stranded far from family and actually worry about them. I wonder, if the author deliberately omitted the likely Racism and Sexism from the accounts that she selected to present the story of these shipwrecked men. If so, I noticed the absence.
The narrator had a good go at the reo Māori, and got most of it about right.. though words like "Ngāti" had him a bit at a loss (hint: not n'Gaat-ee ; soft ng sound like in sing)
I do like a good survival story and was surprised that this book contained more than one. Comparing the strategies and attitudes of two sets of castaways enriched my understanding of what it was like for them. I enjoyed the accounts of how shelter and housing was accomplished, and I'm not too squeamish about having to hunt to survive. I loved looking up the edible plants as I went. Some of the things that were in the reports and memoirs of the lost, were a little fanciful, but why not.
This was a really good counterpoint to that awful whale book 😉 because it actually contained an account of what it is like to be stranded far from family and actually worry about them. I wonder, if the author deliberately omitted the likely Racism and Sexism from the accounts that she selected to present the story of these shipwrecked men. If so, I noticed the absence.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Death, Gore, Mental illness, Terminal illness, Blood, Cannibalism, Classism
Moderate: Alcoholism, Colonisation