The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean (World's Classics S.) - Softcover
Throughout his long career as a writer of adventure stories, Robert Michael Ballantyne remained a boy at heart; he was one of the first Victorian writers to identify himself with the young reader's point of view. Girls as well as boys looked forward to his annual Christmas volume, and when he died the boys of Harrow School subscribed to erect a memorial to him. The Coral Island is his best memorial today. Revisiting the potent myth of the castaway, it tells of three young sailors, sole survivors of a wreck, and their discovery of the enchanting beauties of the South Pacific. They learn how to live off their tropical paradise and its coral groves, but then they are swept into adventures with bloodthirsty pirates, before eventually sailing home to England. Ballantyne sold his story outright for less than #100 in 1858; it has never been out of print since. learn to hunt and fish, and to build a shelter. They gather This book is intended for student-teachers, readers of adventure stories, general readers.
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In 1856 Ballantyne gave up job working for a publishing firm to focus on his literary career and began the series of adventure stories for the young with which his name is popularly associated. The Coral Island (1857) and more than 100 other books followed in regular succession, his rule being in every case to write as far as possible from personal knowledge of the scenes he described.
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- PublisherOxford Paperbacks
- Publication date1990
- ISBN 10 0192826441
- ISBN 13 9780192826442
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages382
- EditorBratton J. S.
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