Новинки Джоан Друэтт

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.

Using the survivors’ journals and historical records, award-winning maritime historian Joan Druett brings to life this extraordinary untold story about leadership and the fine line between order and chaos.

Посреди Тихого океана, к югу от Новой Зеландии, затерялся остров Окленд. Cутками там идет ледяной дождь, воет шквальный ветер, а вокруг ни души. Кораблекрушение там означает неминуемую гибель. 1863 год. Шхуна «Графтон» терпит бедствие у пугающего острова. Капитану Масгрейву удается сплотить команду перед лицом опасности. С огромным трудом они строят хижину и добывают еду. По иронии судьбы на другой стороне острова крушение терпит еще одно судно. Однако капитану Далгарно не удается вдохновить экипаж на борьбу за выживание. Озверев от бессилия, они начинают охоту друг на друга. Что произойдет, когда команды встретятся? И кто победит…

By use of detective work and meticulous research, Joan Druett has reconstructed an exciting account of a way of life that has long since vanished. Using diaries, journals, and correspondences, Druett recounts the daily grind surgeons on nineteenth-century whaling ships faced: the rudimentary tools they used, the treatments they had at their disposal, the sorts of people they encountered in their travels, and the dangers they faced under the harsh conditions of life at sea.

Rough Medicine is much more than the lively stories of doctors at sea. It is a rich chronicle of both the early history of global trade and the evolution of modern medicine. Beautifully written and masterfully researched, there is no other book quite like this.