Boon Island: Including Contemporary Accounts of the Wreck of the *Nottingham Galley*

by Kenneth Roberts

Book Overview

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.... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0874517443
• ISBN13: 9780874517446
• Release Date: March 1995
• Publisher: University Press of New England
• Length: 385 Pages
• Weight: 1.22 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

BEST BOOK EVER!

I just finished this the other day and I thought it was excellente! Mr Roberts can weave a fine tale for a guy thats been dead for a generation and this is certainly no exception. To think - he wrote this book before "Lost", "Alive" and "The Perfect Storm" were ever thuoght of!

Good

This is a solid story, well written. I am glad I read it and recommend it to others.

A good book with a clear focus and excellent research

This book, while not one of Roberts's finest, is still a well-researched mini-masterpiece. It's depiction of real people in seemingly unreal conditions instead of themes on several levels works well for what it sets out to do.

a good book

This is a must read book for those of you who like historical novels. It is about a ship that has wrecked on an island off the coast of Maine and how the crew survives. This book is written with the historical preciseness that Arundel and Northwest Passage are written with. This is one of the greatest historical novels

true story that grips you and will not let go

one of the truly engaging aspects of this work is the day by day account of the shipwreak. By seperating the sequence of events in this manner, the author makes it easy for the reader to read what is in all other regards a sad yet human story. Excellent