The Coral Island

Author : Robert Michael Ballantyne
Publisher : BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 2322432385
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coral Island written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. Their first contact with other people comes after several months when they observe two large outrigger canoes land on the beach. The two groups are engaged in battle and the three boys intervene to successfully defeat the attacking party, earning the gratitude of the chief Tararo. The Polynesians leave and the three boys are alone once more. Then more unwelcome visitors arrive in the shape of pirates, who make a living trading, or stealing, sandalwood. The three boys conceal themselves in a hidden cave, but Ralph is captured when he sets out to see if the pirates have left, and is taken aboard the pirate schooner. Ralph strikes up an unexpected friendship with one of the pirates, "Bloody Bill", and when they call at an island to trade for more wood he meets Tararo again. On the island he sees all facets of island life, including the popular sport of surfing, as well as the practice of infanticide and cannibalism. Rising tension leads to an attack by the inhabitants on the pirates, leaving only Ralph alive and Bloody Bill mortally wounded. However they manage to make their escape in the schooner. After Bill dies, making a death-bed repentance for his evil life, Ralph manages to sail back to the Coral Island to be re-united with his friends.

Author : Robert Michael Ballantyne
Publisher : Thomas Nelson and Sons
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Coral Island written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by Thomas Nelson and Sons. This book was released on 1884 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Michael Ballantyne
Publisher : Conran Octopus
ISBN 13 : 9780706410617
Total Pages : 536 pages
Book Rating : 4.10/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Coral Island written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by Conran Octopus. This book was released on 1979 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two classic adventure yarns one set on a tropical island fraught with danger; the other, in the frozen wilds of North America.

Author : R. M. Ballantyne
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
ISBN 13 : 8726987090
Total Pages : 390 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Young Fur Traders written by R. M. Ballantyne and published by Lindhardt og Ringhof. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Red River Settlement is home to many Indians, French-Canadians, and Scotsmen. Charlie Kennedy lives at Red River with his ex fur-trader father. In an attempt to convince Charlie to lead a more sensible life than he did, his father fills Charlie's mind with stories of his dangerous past life, but the adventure only draws Charlie in. Based on Ballantyne's own experiences, this novel details Charlie's encounters with voyagers, Indians, and the intrepid Jacques Caradoc. Lively prose and makes this novel perfect for fans of Rudyard Kipling's 'The Jungle Book.' Robert Michael Ballantyne (1825 - 1894) was a Scottish author. Born into a family of famous printers and publishers, his expertise was juvenile fiction, and he wrote over 100 hugely successful books in this genre. The most notable of these include ‘The Coral Island’, ‘The Eagle Cliff’, and ‘The Gorilla Hunters’. Famed for his tendency to fully immerse himself into the environment of whichever story he was working on, his lively prose is unmissable for those who enjoyed Matt Haig’s ‘The Midnight Library’.Robert Michael Ballantyne (1825 - 1894) was a Scottish author. Born into a family of famous printers and publishers, his expertise was juvenile fiction, and he wrote over 100 hugely successful books in this genre. The most notable of these include ‘The Coral Island’, ‘The Eagle Cliff’, and ‘The Gorilla Hunters’. Famed for his tendency to fully immerse himself into the environment of whichever story he was working on, his lively prose is unmissable for those who enjoyed Matt Haig’s ‘The Midnight Library’.

Author : R M Ballantyne
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3861953560
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Coral Island written by R M Ballantyne and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2010 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When three boys find themselves shipwrecked on a South Pacific Island, they must learn to survive in a sometimes beautiful, sometimes deadly new world. A classic tale of high adventure and boyhood courage.

Author : Michelle Elleray
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000752992
Total Pages : 318 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Victorian Coral Islands of Empire, Mission, and the Boys’ Adventure Novel written by Michelle Elleray and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-11-06 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Attending to the mid-Victorian boys’ adventure novel and its connections with missionary culture, Michelle Elleray investigates how empire was conveyed to Victorian children in popular forms, with a focus on the South Pacific as a key location of adventure tales and missionary efforts. The volume draws on an evangelical narrative about the formation of coral islands to demonstrate that missionary investments in the socially marginal (the young, the working class, the racial other) generated new forms of agency that are legible in the mid-Victorian boys’ adventure novel, even as that agency was subordinated to Christian values identified with the British middle class. Situating novels by Frederick Marryat, R. M. Ballantyne and W. H. G. Kingston in the periodical culture of the missionary enterprise, this volume newly historicizes British children’s textual interactions with the South Pacific and its peoples. Although the mid-Victorian authors examined here portray British presence in imperial spaces as a moral imperative, our understanding of the "adventurer" is transformed from the plucky explorer to the cynical mercenary through Robert Louis Stevenson, who provides a late-nineteenth-century critique of the imperial and missionary assumptions that subtended the mid-Victorian boys’ adventure novel of his youth.

Author : R. M. Ballantyne
Publisher : LA CASE Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Cannibal Islands written by R. M. Ballantyne and published by LA CASE Books. This book was released on 2004 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The Cannibal Islands' is a historical novel by prolific author R.M. Ballantyne. In it, he gives some background to the world-wide explorations of the famous Captain Cook. Ballantyne uses detailed descriptions of the customs and habits of those who Captain Cook encountered to flesh out the adventures of the famous explorer. Ballantyne is particularly fascinated by the habit of cannibalism practised by some of the people that Cook encountered. Very much of it's time, this is nevertheless a fascinating and insightful read.

Author : Greg Dvorak
Publisher : University of Hawaii Press
ISBN 13 : 0824855213
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Coral and Concrete written by Greg Dvorak and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2018-11-30 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Coral and Concrete, Greg Dvorak’s cross-cultural history of Kwajalein Atoll, Marshall Islands, explores intersections of environment, identity, empire, and memory in the largest inhabited coral atoll on earth. Approaching the multiple “atollscapes” of Kwajalein’s past and present as Marshallese ancestral land, Japanese colonial outpost, Pacific War battlefield, American weapons-testing base, and an enduring home for many, Dvorak delves into personal narratives and collective mythologies from contradictory vantage points. He navigates the tensions between “little stories” of ordinary human actors and “big stories” of global politics—drawing upon the “little” metaphor of the coral organisms that colonize and build atolls, and the “big” metaphor of the all-encompassing concrete that buries and co-opts the past. Building upon the growing body of literature about militarism and decolonization in Oceania, this book advocates a layered, nuanced approach that emphasizes the multiplicity and contradictions of Pacific Islands histories as an antidote to American hegemony and globalization within and beyond the region. It also brings Japanese, Korean, Okinawan, and American perspectives into conversation with Micronesians’ recollections of colonialism and war. This transnational history—built upon a combination of reflective personal narrative, ethnography, cultural studies, and postcolonial studies—thus resituates Kwajalein Atoll as a pivotal site where Islanders have not only thrived for thousands of years, but also mediated between East and West, shaping crucial world events. Based on multi-sited ethnographic and archival research, as well as Dvorak’s own experiences growing up between Kwajalein, the United States, and Japan, Coral and Concrete integrates narrative and imagery with semiotic analysis of photographs, maps, films, and music, traversing colonial tropical fantasies, tales of victory and defeat, missile testing, fisheries, war-bereavement rituals, and landowner resistance movements, from the twentieth century through the present day. Representing history as a perennial struggle between coral and concrete, the book offers an Oceanian paradigm for decolonization, resistance, solidarity, and optimism that should appeal to all readers far beyond the Marshall Islands.

Author : Robert Michael Ballantyne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Coral Island written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by . This book was released on 1868 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert Michael Ballantyne
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gorilla Hunters written by Robert Michael Ballantyne and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: