Ep 4: Bob and the Invercauld
6/9/202655 min
It's bad enough that 19th-century sailor Bob Holding gets stranded on an island after a shipwreck—but to make it worse, his companions are entitled, incompetent, and straight up murderous. Plus, they're not as alone on the island as they think...
Sources for this episode include the books The Wake of the Invercauld: Shipwrecked in the Subantarctic by Madelene Ferguson Allen and Island of the Lost by Joan Druett.
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First 90 secondsBlair Braverman· Host0:00
You can make whatever choices you want, you can eat whoever you want, but I'm not gonna be part of it. [gentle music] Hey everyone, and welcome back to What to Carry, What to Burn. I'm your host, Blair Braverman. I'm a writer, an adventurer, and a long-distance dog sledder, and today's story is definitely an adventure. You do not need to have heard the last episode, The Wreck of the Grafton, in order to enjoy this one, but I think the stories add to each other a little bit, and I'm gonna mention that one slightly. So you can totally listen to this as a standalone, but if you want the full experience, go back to episode three, listen to The Wreck of the Grafton first, and I don't think you'll regret it because that story is amazing in its own right. For this episode, like the last one, I don't have a guest. I'm just gonna be telling you the story directly. I think what I'll do in the future is a combination. So it'll often be just me, but when there's a story and a guest that I think are a really good fit together, then I'll have 'em come along. Thank you so much for joining me around the campfire today. Let's jump right in. [gentle music] Our story starts in