Summary of Joan Druett's Island of the Lost

Get the Summary of Joan Druett's Island of the Lost in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. Original book introduction: It is 1864, and Captain Thomas Musgrave's schooner, the Grafton, has just wrecked on Auckland Island, a forbidding piece of land 285 miles south of New Zealand. Battered by year-round freezing rain and constant winds, it is one of the most inhospitable places on earth. To be shipwrecked there means almost certain death.Incredibly, at the same time on the opposite end of the island, another ship runs aground during a storm. Separated by only twenty miles and the island s treacherous, impassable cliffs, the crews of the Grafton and the Invercauld face the same fate. And yet where the Invercauld s crew turns inward on itself, fighting, starving, and even turning to cannibalism, Musgrave s crew bands together to build a cabin and a forge and eventually, to find a way to escape.