"Island of the lost : shipwrecked at the edge of the world" by Joan Druett has been picked up by South Pacific Pictures. Published in 2007 the book is about two crews shipwrecked on opposite ends of an island at around about the same time. Unfortunately a great big mountain range is in between them, leading each group to think they are the only ones on the island. What happens next sounds like a horrible social experiment gone wrong - here's the blurb..."In early 1864, heading back to Australia after a failed mining expedition, the crew of the Grafton encountered a violent storm and found themselves shipwrecked in the Auckland Islands, off the coast of New Zealand. Druett, a maritime historian (In the Wake of Madness), draws upon the journals of the ship's captain, Thomas Musgrave and prospector Francois Raynal to reveal how the crew pulled together and made the best of their circumstances for nearly two years. By contrast, when the Invercauld ran aground on the other side of the island months later-beyond an impassable mountain range, and hence unaware they were not alone-the surviving sailors quickly began eating their dead crewmates out of desperation. Soon, only three remained, the ineffectual captain and another officer being kept alive by a resourceful seaman."
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