lukehoop 's review for:

Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World by Joan Druett

4.0

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This story is completely nuts; two different ships wreck on the same island and thanks to questionably accurate journal keeping we have a lot of knowledge on how these two different crews survived. Druett does a great job of putting all the various accounts together in a very readable book. There were certainly parts that dragged as the details on some of the projects that the outcasts were working on could be a little slow but the ingenuity in their work and the will they had to keep working made it worthwhile. I'm glad that I was able to hold off on looking up details on the story because my curiosity for how they survived kept me engaged through the dull parts.