The Wreck of the Mentor Quotes

“On February 2, 1709, Rogers' men visited the island of Más a Tierra (officially renamed Robinson Crusoe Island in 1966), located in the Pacific about 400 miles from the Chilean coast. There they found a British sailor named Alexander Selkirk, who had been marooned on the island four years and four months earlier. Rogers took Selkirk onboard and ultimately brought him back to England, where his tale of survival became the backbone for Daniel Dafoe's famous novel, Robinson Crusoe.”
― Eric Jay Dolin, The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail

“Delano was astonished to perceive how great a change could be affected by bad rulers in so short a period. The people whom we had left just, humane, and happy were now in a state of oppression mutual distrust and opposition, and were gloomy and wretched.”
― Eric Jay Dolin, The Wreck of the Mentor: A True Story of Death, Despair, and Deliverance in the Age of Sail