Boon Island: Including Contemporary Accounts of the Wreck of the *Nottingham Galley* Paperback - 1995
by Kenneth Roberts
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In late August 1731 the Duke of Lorraine briefly visited the port of Ostend, one of many cities on his tour of the Austrian Netherlands.
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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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- Title Boon Island: Including Contemporary Accounts of the Wreck of the *Nottingham Galley*
- Author Kenneth Roberts
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Pages 385
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher University Press of New England, USA
- Date March 15, 1995
- ISBN 9780874517446 / 0874517443
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 8.54 x 5.54 x 1.11 in (21.69 x 14.07 x 2.82 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Historical fiction, Sea stories
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95043292
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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