Young Adult Ballantyne, Robert Michael: The Coral Island v1 26 dec 2008

[mtravellerh]

R. M. Ballantyne (April 24, 1825 – February 8, 1894) was a Scottish juvenile fiction writer.

Born Robert Michael Ballantyne in Edinburgh, he was part of a famous family of printers and publishers. At the age of 16 he went to Canada and was six years in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company. He returned to Scotland in 1847, and published his first book the following year, Hudson's Bay: or, Life in the Wilds of North America. For some time he was employed by Messrs Constable, the publishers, but in 1856 he gave up business for the profession of literature, and began the series of adventure stories for the young with which his name is popularly associated.

The Young Fur-Traders (1856), The Coral Island (1857), The World of Ice (1859), Ungava: a Tale of Eskimo Land (1857), The Dog Crusoe (1860), The Lighthouse (1865), Deep Down (1868), The Pirate City (1874), Erling the Bold (1869), The Settler and the Savage (1877), and other books, to the number of upwards of a hundred, followed in regular succession, his rule being in every case to write as far as possible from personal knowledge of the scenes he described.

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. At first their life on the island is idyllic; food, in the shape of fruits, fish and wild pigs, is plentiful, and using their only possessions; a broken telescope, an iron-bound oar and a small axe, they fashion a shelter and even construct a small boat.

Ballantyne has written a great bestseller!

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[Dr. Drib]

Coral Island was also made available by me and is located here:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11476


Don

[mtravellerh]

So better get Don's version of it. Bet it's better than mine!

As for Mobi and IMP versions, there is still only one, namely mine!

[Dr. Drib]

Originally Posted by mtravellerh

So better get Don's version of it. Bet it's better than mine!

As for Mobi and IMP versions, there is still only one, namely mine!

NONSENSE! --

Your books, mtravellerh, are excellent!

We both have a version out, but readers should experiment and go with the version they enjoy. (Or wait until a Reader can have both versions running simultaneously!)

Don

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