The coral island
By: by Robert Michael Ballantyne ; with a preface for the Garland ed. by Edward Hower.
Series: Classics of children's literature, 1621-1932
Publisher: Garland Pub.
Published: 1977
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 438
Subjects: Shipwrecks -- Fiction.; Survival -- Fiction.; Adventure and adventurers -- Fiction.; Islands -- 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.
Notes: Bibliography: p. xiii-xxi.
Reprint of the 1858 ed. published by T. Nelson, London.