BOON ISLAND Author:KENNETH ROBERTS Boon Island lay low in the water like the back of a whale. It was hard and barren soil or bush or any growing thing. Fourteen men watched, prayed, and cursed as their ship was pounded to pieces on this murderous hump of rock. In the tradition of Treasure Island, Robinson Crusoe, and the Bounty trilogy.... — The story of a shipwreck on a small, ro... more »cky island off the coast of Maine and New Hampshire in the mid 1700s.« less