This book is incredible. I could not stop reading. It is intense and exciting and frustrating and curious and glorious. A tremendous work of writing. Read it once and then read it again.

Just amazing that anyone survived this shipwreck or any ship life at all considering the conditions. Fascinating history!

Deep dive, slow start, but becomes more gripping if you stay with it.

Full of adventure and then closed with an excellent reflection on how that adventure fits into the wider narrative of British Imperialism.

There’s a reason this has been a best seller for so long. Great, fun read, enlightening.

True human nature comes through.

The book was pretty dull

This is honestly one of the best books I have ever read, and I didn’t even think I would like it. David Grann is an amazing author and tells every detail of this story masterfully. If you ask me this should get a Pulitzer or something. Awesome!

Moved along at a good pace. Very entertaining. A page turner and well written.

often tedious… and the author just can’t resist dropping in his ideological comments … constantly projecting events as being “designed to cover up oppression of indigenous people” and the like. If writing history, stick to facts.