Boon Island A True Story of Mutiny, Shipwreck, and Cannibalism By Stephen Erickson, Andrew Vietze · 2012

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Boon Island: A True Story of Mutiny, Shipwreck, and Cannibalism by Andrew Vietze, Stephen Erickson. The wreck of the Nottingham Galley on Boon Island and the resultant rumors of in surance fraud, mutiny, treason, and cannibalism was one of the most sensational stories of the early eighteenth century. Shortly after departing England with Captain John Deane at the helm, his brother Jasper and another investor aboard, and an inexperienced crew, the ship encountered French privateers on her way to Ireland, where she then lingered for weeks picking up cargo. They eventually headed into the North Atlantic and then found themselves shipwrecked on the notorious Boon Island, just off the New England coast. Captain Deane offered one version of the events that lef them to the barren rock off the coast of Maine; his crew proposed another. In the hands of silled storytellers Andrew Vietze and Stephen Erickson, this becomes a historical adventure that reveals mysteries that endure to this day. Show more