{"id":2848,"date":"2020-02-06T16:54:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-06T16:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.thegentsplace.com\/?p=2848"},"modified":"2020-02-06T16:54:06","modified_gmt":"2020-02-06T16:54:06","slug":"read-like-a-gent-island-of-the-lost-by-joan-druett","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.thegentsplace.com\/read-like-a-gent-island-of-the-lost-by-joan-druett\/","title":{"rendered":"Read Like a Gent: Island of the Lost, by Joan Druett"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\tEvery young boy occasionally dreams of being shipwrecked and living like Robinson Crusoe<\/em>: hacking survival out of the wilderness, getting by on wits, hard work, and a bit of luck.\u00a0 Films like Cast Away<\/em> take a look at the other side: the bitter loneliness of isolation; a reminder that it is not good for man to be alone.\u00a0 The magic of the book Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World<\/a><\/em>, is that it manages to tell both of those stories across two entirely different shipwrecked parties.\u00a0 One story focuses on how you survive when you are shipwrecked with almost no hope of rescue.\u00a0 The other is how you can’t do it alone.\u00a0 And unlike Robinson Crusoe<\/em> or Cast Away,<\/em> Island of the Lost<\/em> is a true story.<\/p>\n

Two Crews<\/strong><\/p>\n

In the middle of the Southern Ocean, almost 300 miles south of New Zealand, you’ll find Auckland Island.\u00a0 It gets freezing rain and howling winds almost year round.\u00a0 Colonies were attempted there several times, only to be abandoned.\u00a0 But none of that probably mattered to Captain Thomas Musgrave and his crew on the Grafton<\/em> when they were shipwrecked there in 1864.\u00a0 Some months later, the Invercauld wrecks on the other side of the island, on the other side of an impassable mountain range, but with 19 crew.<\/p>\n

The difference between these two stories came down to leadership.\u00a0 Captain Musgrave preserved order, put his men to work, and joined in it with them.\u00a0 Against the weather and the hardiness of the terrain, they not only manage to keep themselves fed, but build a cabin and even create a forge to manufacture tools.\u00a0 The captain of the Invercauld<\/em>, George Dalgarno, simply fails to act.\u00a0 Some of the men split off and try to survive.\u00a0 Some die of starvation, while others resorted to cannibalism.\u00a0 This time the leadership came from the enlisted side, as the two officers were kept alive by a resourceful veteran seaman.<\/p>\n

Two Rescues<\/strong><\/p>\n

Only three survivors remained of the 19 that wrecked with the Invercauld<\/em>, and their signal fire was spotted by a passing Spanish ship.\u00a0 Captain Dalgarno managed to pass himself off as the real hero to the newspapers of the time, but the true story of the real hero, Robert Holding, comes out in time and was an integral part of the storytelling in this book, as Druett keeps everything chronological as she tells the story of both crews.<\/p>\n

Captain Musgrave would not have the fortune of a passing Spanish ship, and instead with his crew\u00a0builds a new ship from what they could salvage from their own shipwreck.\u00a0 It’s not big enough for all of them, so three of them go with the pledge to return to rescue the other two.<\/p>\n

Takeaways<\/strong><\/p>\n

The rescue of the crew from the Grafton was a sensation.\u00a0 It led to the government of New Zealand placing particular survival supplies on the island in special strongboxes.\u00a0 They also released some animals on the island in the hopes they might thrive and provide sustenance to shipwrecked sailors.\u00a0 The crew of the Grafton had survived mostly on sealion meat during almost their entire stay.<\/p>\n

The book is chock full of stories about marine and sea life, but also about how leaders can inspire us to be our best selves in even the very worst environments.\u00a0 The everyday anecdotes about how the men continued to survive through hardship and setbacks tends to put any “bad day at the office” in its proper place.<\/p>\n

Do you have a book you’d like us to review for other Gents? Let us know in the comments below.<\/em>\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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