The coral island
By: by R.M. Ballantyne ; illustrated with line drawings and 8 colour plates by Leo Bates.
Contributors: Bates, Leo, ill.
Series: Children's illustrated classics -- no. 6
Publisher: Dent; Dutton
Published: 1949
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 337
Subjects: Shipwrecks -- Fiction.; Survival -- Fiction.; Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction.; Boys -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction.; Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, etc. -- Juvenile fiction.; Pirates -- Juvenile fiction.; Islands -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.; Juvenile fiction.
Description: Three English boys, shipwrecked on a deserted island, create an idyllic society despite typhoons, wild hogs, and hostile visitors. Then evil pirates kidnap one of the youths whose adventures continue among the South Sea Islands.