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

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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

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.

I enjoyed reading this book for its authentic background. We will never be able to learn the whole truth as to what may have occurred during the tragic ordeal of those who were present, but Roberts tells a wonderful story anyhow. It's all history now.

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!

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

Great combination of material about Boon Island to include with the novel, a wonderful replacement for the copy I once bought decades ago.

But there is a striking omission: no picture(s) of Boon Island at all. I've seen pictures of Boon Island from reading about it online, but this book screams for a picture to convey the bleakness of the island. What were the editors thinking?