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Adventure and peril abound in a classic tale of shipwreck and survivalRalph, Jack, and Peterkin find themselves the sole survivors of a shipwreck on a deserted coral island in the South Pacific. Although fate has led them to temporary safety, the three marooned boys are forced to carve out a life for themselves from what nature provides. They rapidly learn which fruit to eat, which animals to hunt, and which lagoons are best for bathing. Resourceful as they are, their desert island idyll is often disturbed and they face numerous terrifying threatspirates, sharks, cannibalism, and local tribes among them. Amid all the chaos, the trio still face the riddle of how to engineer their rescue from their tropical exile. Following in Robinson Crusoe's footsteps, and yet with added adventure, Ballantyne's writing is a classic adored by previous generations of children and deserves to be discovered all over again by a modern audience.
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Fiction, Adventure and adventurers, Shipwrecks, Juvenile fiction, Survival, Islands, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Adventure stories, Conduct of life, Pirates, Boys, Fiction, general, Action & Adventure, Children's fiction, Islands, fiction, Adventure and adventurers, fiction, Shipwrecks, fiction, Adventure fiction, Sharks, fiction, Pirates, fiction, Islands of the pacific, fictionPeople
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Coral Island (Priory Classics - Series Two)
July 1, 2006, Peter Haddock Ltd
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The Coral Island
May 25, 2000, Puffin Books
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The coral island: The young fur traders
1979, Octopus Books Ltd.
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A nineteenth century adventure story of three teenaged boys shipwrecked on a Pacific island. At first they lead an idyllic life but this is soon interrupted by the arrival on the island of rival Polynesian war parties and then pirates. After various adventures the boys find themselves in possession of the pirate’s ship and can sail for home.
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