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Language: English
Published by Wordsworth Editions Ltd, 1999
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- Title
- The Coral Island
- Author
- Ballantyne, R. M.
- Publisher
- Wordsworth Editions Ltd
- Publication year
- 1999
- Condition
- Very Good
- Binding
- paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 185326170X
- ISBN 13
- 9781853261701
The story opens with the shipwreck on a Pacific Island of the young friends Ralph Rover and Jack Martin and Peterkin Gray. Despite the pleasurable presence of delicious breadfruit, coconuts, and succulent oysters, the intrepid trio are not alone and they soon witness a battle between rival bands of cannibals led by 'Bloody Bill'. Their lives are placed in serious peril from which only courage and determined pluck can save them.
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About the Author
Robert Michael Ballantyne was born in Scotland in 1825. As a young man he went to Canada to work as a clerk with the Hudson Bay Fur Company. His experiences gave him lots of ideas for his career as a writer, artist and lecturer when he returned to Scotland. His best known for his novel The Coral Island which has remained in print since its first publication in 1857. He died in 1894.
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