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The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean

The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean

Ballantyne, Robert Michael
Struik, Alex

Paperback

Mystery & ThrillerClassic Fiction

ISBN10: 1481265164
ISBN13: 9781481265164
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Dec 15 2012
Pages: 340
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
The Coral Island: A Tale of the Pacific Ocean (1858) is a novel written by Scottish juvenile fiction author R. M. Ballantyne at the height of the British Empire. The story relates the adventures of three boys marooned on a South Pacific island, the only survivors of a shipwreck. R. M. Ballantyne (24 April 1825 - 8 February 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.

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