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This was a really amazing story that, for me, was almost hobbled by the overwhelming amount of time spent on sea lions. It's hard to explain, but an inordinate amount of the book is either on the clubbing/stabbing of seal lions or their mating habits. If you can get through all of that, the survival stories are really amazing, especially the parallel stories of the two different shipwrecked crews. Really fascinating. Except for the sea lion stuff.