Boon Island: A True Story of Mutiny, Shipwreck, and Cannibalism

by Andrew Vietze, Stephen Erickson · 2012

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A harrowing true tale of fraud, mutiny, shipwreck, and cannibalism on the desolate rock known as Boon Island.

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adult
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medium · 232 pages

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