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Save Our Souls : The True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder by Matthew Pearl (2025, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-100063338068
ISBN-139780063338067
eBay Product ID (ePID)9067057946
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Book TitleSave Our Souls : the True Story of a Castaway Family, Treachery, and Murder
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicEarth Sciences / Geography, United States / 19th Century, Maritime History & Piracy
Publication Year2025
GenreScience, History
AuthorMatthew Pearl
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.1 in
Item Weight15.3 Oz
Item Length8.8 in
Item Width6.5 in
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Reviews"Written with the compelling narrative and literary flair of a work of fiction." - Minneapolis Star Tribune "What's remarkable about Save Our Souls is how Pearl manages to center the deeply fascinating story of the Walkers while also making time to explore the broader context of the world in which they travelled. Readers are treated to an array of engrossing tangents and compelling anecdotes that reveal an environment rife with lies, betrayals, and lawlessness . . . . Pearl provides a fitting tribute to the Walkers and their astonishing era, one that's appropriately attuned to both its inspiring virtues and its appalling vices." - WBUR "An incredibly suspenseful and entertaining read . . . . Matthew Pearl's able hand is very much on display as he is one of our finest researchers, and his mastery of historical fiction drives this account through like a suspense novel." - Bookreporter "A rousing history. . . . Pearl paces the account like a thriller. . . .This real-life Swiss Family Robinson will keep readers up all night." - Publishers Weekly "Save Our Souls is a story, not a study. The distinction is vital. You get to know these people and their relationships with each other. You live and die with every near-rescue that isn't. Most important, you keep turning the page." - Boston Globe "Pearl . . . takes readers on a rollicking adventure through the 19th-century Pacific with a page-turning historical true-crime narrative reminiscent of the works of David Grann or Nathaniel Philbrick." - WBUR.org "Save Our Souls is part history, part murder mystery, part sea-going adventure--entirely captivating." - New York Journal of Books "I'm a sucker for Big Boat Books like David Grann's The Wager and Erik Larson's Dead Wake, so Matthew Pearl's new work of narrative nonfiction is right up my slipway. In the winter of 1887, an entire family of five, their dog, and two dozen crew members disappeared when their shark fishing boat was blown off course by a storm near Hawaii. What follows is a much darker version of Swiss Family Robinson when the shipwreck survivors encounter a stranded psychopath." - Adam Morgan, Esquire "Pearl unfolds this tale with suspense. . . . His telling is notable both for its uncanny parallels to the apocryphal Swiss Family Robinson story that predated it and because the real-life shipwreck of Captain Frederick Walker, his wife and their sons was more dire than Disney's idyllic fantasy. Pearl renders clear connections to the fictional story while writing a real-life adventure full of deceit, villainy and murderous plotting. . . . As grounded in the 19th century as it is, Pearl's take on the story of the castaways of the Wandering Minstrel also feels apt for our present moment--more Lord of the Flies than Swiss Family Robinson." - Los Angeles Times "A genuine Swiss Family Robinson adventure, but darker. . . . A realistic castaway account." - Kirkus Reviews "This dramatic story of good and evil pits the power of teamwork and family against ruthless ambition and selfishness. An illuminating chronicle of perseverance and survival on a barren island, Save Our Souls brings history to life." - Booklist "A staggering account of a family castaway on a deserted island and confronted by a mysterious man who first appears to be their salvation, before a more difficult truth emerges. Pearl works in the vein of David Grann and consistently produces first-rate nonfiction." - Literary Hub, "Most Anticipated Books of the Year", "A fascinating picture of frontier Kentucky. . . . The story of Jemima's abduction, an exciting and revealing episode in the history of America's westward expansion, deserves to be retold. To his credit, Pearl resists oversimplifying a history that has been too often presented as a frontier romance, showing us that it is as much about the women, children and Native Americans who played a part in it as the famous men who ensured it would be remembered." -- New York Times Book Review "A deliciously intricate and utterly absorbing retelling of the Daniel Boone family saga---and particularly the complex roles played by the Cherokee and Shawnee across Boone's southern Appalachian stamping grounds. The Taking of Jemima Boone adds an intriguing dimension to an issue of keen importance to modern society." -- New York Times bestselling author Simon Winchester "It seemed Jemima Boone's fate to be taken hostage--if not by Kentucky Indians then by fiction and legend. Even a cousin had a go at her story, in verse. Sensitively and eloquently, writing his way around the silences, Matthew Pearl rescues her at last. Fearlessness seemed to run in the family; Jemima could neither read nor write, yet had an uncanny ability to communicate with her father, conspiring with him from a distance, assisting with his rescue, under gunfire, at close hand. A rousing tale of frontier daring and ingenuity, better than legend on every front." -- Pulitzer Prize-winning author Stacy Schiff "Not only did Matthew Pearl's clear and vivid writing immediately sweep me up in a father's fear, it pulled me into a larger and even more profound story, one that would change the course of three nations--one young, two ancient, all fighting for survival." -- Candice Millard, bestselling author of The River of Doubt: Theodore Roosevelt's Darkest Journey
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal910.4
SynopsisFrom the bestselling author of The Taking of Jemima Boone, the unbelievable true story of a real-life Swiss Family Robinson (and their dog) who faced sharks, shipwreck, and betrayal. On December 10, 1887, a shark fishing boat disappeared. On board the doomed vessel were the Walkers--the ship's captain Frederick, his wife Elizabeth, their three teenage sons, and their dog--along with the ship's crew. The family had spotted a promising fishing location when a terrible storm arose, splitting their vessel in two and leaving those onboard adrift on the perilous sea. When the castaways awoke the next morning, they discovered they had been washed ashore--on an island inhabited by a large but ragged and emaciated man who introduced himself as Hans. Hans appeared to have been there for a while and could quickly educate the Walkers and their crew on the island's resources. But Hans had a secret . . . and as the Walker family gradually came to learn more, what seemed like a stroke of luck to have the mysterious man's assistance became something ominous, something darker. Like David Grann and Stacy Schiff, Matthew Pearl unveils one of the most incredible yet little-known historical true stories, and the only known instance in history of an actual family of castaways. Save Our Souls asks us to consider who we might become if we found ourselves trapped on a deserted island., INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER From the bestselling author of The Taking of Jemima Boone , the unbelievable true story of a real-life Swiss Family Robinson (and their dog) who faced sharks, shipwreck, and betrayal. On December 10, 1887, a shark fishing boat disappeared. On board the doomed vessel were the Walkers--the ship's captain Frederick, his wife Elizabeth, their three teenage sons, and their dog--along with the ship's crew. The family had spotted a promising fishing location when a terrible storm arose, splitting their vessel in two and leaving those onboard adrift on the perilous sea. When the castaways awoke the next morning, they discovered they had been washed ashore--on an island inhabited by a large but ragged and emaciated man who introduced himself as Hans. Hans appeared to have been there for a while and could quickly educate the Walkers and their crew on the island's resources. But Hans had a secret . . . and as the Walker family gradually came to learn more, what seemed like a stroke of luck to have the mysterious man's assistance became something ominous, something darker. Like David Grann and Stacy Schiff, Matthew Pearl unveils one of the most incredible yet little-known historical true stories, and the only known instance in history of an actual family of castaways. Save Our Souls asks us to consider who we might become if we found ourselves trapped on a deserted island.
LC Classification NumberG525.P4 2025
