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The coral island

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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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Publisher
Hesperus Minor
Language
English
Pages
366

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Cover of: The coral island
The coral island
2013, Hesperus Minor
in English
Cover of: The coral island
The coral island
2010, ReadaClassic.com
in English - Unabridged.
Cover of: The Coral Island
The Coral Island
Jun 7, 2007, Project Gutenberg
Cover of: Coral Island (Priory Classics - Series Two)
Coral Island (Priory Classics - Series Two)
July 1, 2006, Peter Haddock Ltd
Hardcover
Cover of: The Coral Island
The Coral Island
May 25, 2000, Puffin Books
Paperback - Film & TV Tie-in Ed edition
Cover of: The coral island
The coral island
1991, Fabbri Pub.
in English - Facsim. ed.
Cover of: The coral island
The coral island: The young fur traders
1979, Octopus Books Ltd.
in English
Cover of: The coral island
The coral island
1977, Purnell
in English
Cover of: Coral Island
Coral Island: a tale of the Pacific Ocean
1923, The Cornhill publishing company
in English
Cover of: The coral island
Cover of: The Coral Island

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London

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823.8
Library of Congress
PZ7.B211

The Physical Object

Pagination
1 online resource (366 pages)
Number of pages
366

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31913233M
Internet Archive
coralisland0000ball_f2j3
ISBN 10
1780942427, 1780942443, 1843914816
ISBN 13
9781780942421, 9781780942445, 9781843914815
OCLC/WorldCat
876046488

Work Description

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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