
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...
Age Range: 9 - 12 years
Grade Level: 4 - 7
Series: Hesperus Minor Classics
Paperback: 368 pages
Publisher: Hesperus Press; Reprint edition (January 1, 2014)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 9781843914815
ISBN-13: 978-1843914815
ASIN: 1843914816
Product Dimensions: 5 x 1.5 x 7.8 inches
Amazon Rank: 3889334
Format: PDF ePub Text djvu book
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A mid-XVIII Century British adventure story, I bought it to check whether the author might have been inspired to write this tale for his young audience by a true account of shipwreck on the Great Barrier Reef, bloody fighting with natives, and eventu...
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.