When three boys find themselves shipwrecked on a South Pacific Island, they must learn to survive in a sometimes beautiful, sometimes deadly new world. A classic tale of high adventure and boyhood courage.
However they manage to make their escape in the schooner. After Bill dies, making a death-bed repentance for his evil life, Ralph manages to sail back to the Coral Island to be re-united with his friends.
" This edition of The Coral Island is unabridged.
Reproduction of the original.
Two classic adventure yarns one set on a tropical island fraught with danger; the other, in the frozen wilds of North America.
Three boys, fifteen-year-old Ralph Rover (the narrator), eighteen-year-old Jack Martin and fourteen-year-old Peterkin Gay, are the sole survivors of a shipwreck on the coral reef of a large but uninhabited Polynesian island.
Fifteen-year-old Ralph, mischievous young Peterkin and clever, brave Jack are shipwrecked on a coral reef with only a telescope and a broken pocketknife between them. At first the island seems...
The Coral Island. A Tale of the Pacific Ocean. R. M. Ballantyne. The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean (1858) is a novel written by Scottish author R. M. Ballantyne.
IT was a bright, beautiful, warm day when our ship spread her canvas to the breeze, and sailed for the regions of the south.
One of the first works of juvenile fiction to feature exclusively juvenile heroes, the story relates the adventures of three boys marooned on a South Pacific island, the only survivors of a shipwreck.
Based on Ballantyne's own experiences, this novel details Charlie's encounters with voyagers, Indians, and the intrepid Jacques Caradoc. Lively prose and makes this novel perfect for fans of Rudyard Kipling's 'The Jungle Book.