JUVENILE FICTION
368 Pages, 5 x 8
Formats: Trade Paper, PDF, EPUB, Mobipocket
Trade Paper, $14.99 (US $14.99) (CA $16.99)
Publication Date: January 2014
ISBN 9781843914815
Rights: US, CA, AU & NZ
Hesperus Press (Jan 2014)
Hesperus Minor
eBook Editions Available
Will it work on my eReader?Adventure and peril abound in a classic tale of shipwreck and survival
Ralph, 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 threats—pirates, 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.
"The Coral Island gave three shipwrecked boys a chance to conduct their own adventures, and influenced many other writers." —A.S. Byatt, Guardian
"Prolific and excellent writer of tales." —Times