The Ocean and its Wonders

Explorers on Black Ice Bridge

The Vanishing Island: The Chronicles of the Black Tulip

The Bark of the Bog Owl (Wilderking Trilogy)

The adventure collection

Bracelet of Bones

Treasure Island

Orphans of the Tide #2: Shipwreck Island

Wordsworth Children'S Classics

The Coral Island - A Tale of the Pacific Ocean - 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.
An enormously popular adventure since its publication in 1857, it provoked William Golding to write Lord of the Flies, offering an alternative view of how English boys would behave when released from the constraints of civilisation.


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The Ocean and its Wonders

R.M. Ballantyne, Robert Michael Ballantyne, 2016

Explorers on Black Ice Bridge

Alex Bell, 2019

The Vanishing Island: The Chronicles of the Black Tulip

Dave Stevenson, Barry Wolverton, 2015

The Bark of the Bog Owl (Wilderking Trilogy)

Jonathan Rogers, 2004

The adventure collection

Mark Twain, 1910

Bracelet of Bones

Kevin Crossley-Holland, 2011

Treasure Island

Robert Louis Stevenson, 1882

Orphans of the Tide #2: Shipwreck Island

Struan Murray, 2021