Island of the Lost Quotes

“When Holding, clinging to the poop with five others,”
― Joan Druett, Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

“Because of conscientious leadership, resourceful technology, unstinting hard work, and an outstanding spirit of camaraderie, they had survived unimaginable privations.”
― Joan Druett, Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

“Musgrave took up a habit of going off on long excursions, taking a cudgel and trekking for long distances on foot, sometimes with Alick, but often alone. This is a common phenomenon when people are stranded in desolate, remote places, exhibited by members of scientific discovery parties as well as shipwrecked seamen. Obsessive behavior is characteristic, too,”
― Joan Druett, Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

“At the end of the entry Musgrave noted without comment, “Tenth anniversary of my marriage.” For once, he left his deep distress undescribed.”
― Joan Druett, Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

“Hunger is certainly a good sauce.”
― Joan Druett, Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

“The sugary rhizomes of Stilbocarpa have saved the lives of many shipwrecked people who gnawed them in desperation, though they need to be cooked to be palatable. A strange side effect was that eating Stilbocarpa roots bleached the teeth, so that even men who had been addicted for years to chewing tobacco ended up with teeth as white as a child’s.”
― Joan Druett, Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

“Les naufrages”
― Joan Druett, Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World

“the sails would fill, and the ship might”
― Joan Druett, Island of the Lost: Shipwrecked at the Edge of the World