The island home, or, The adventures of six young Crusoes
By: by Richard Archer
Contributors: Dalziel Brothers
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: George Routledge and Company
Published: 1854
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 383
Subjects: Robinsonades; Castaways; Juvenile fiction
Other titles: Adventures of six young Crusoes; Island home
Description: Ostensibly based on a true story of six of the passengers of the ship "Washington", which sailed from New York 20 years before the date of this book, under the captaincy of a Mr. Erskine. The six youths are set adrift in the South Pacific by the mutineering crew. They finally land on a desert island and have many adventures with nature and islanders as they struggle to survive. "The names of these castaways were: John Browne, the son of a Glasgow merchant; William Morton, and Maximilian Adeler, of New York; Richard Archer, from Connecticut, the journalist; John Livingstone, from Massachusetts; Arthur Hamilton, whose parents had settled at Tahieti"--Introduction.
Notes: "Fourth thousand."

Illustrations engraved and signed by: Dalziel.

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Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.