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Coral Island

Coral Island

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by R M Ballantyne

Hardback with green cloth cover, in reasonable condition. Nice edition with images. An inside front page is missing so date of publishing not clear. 

This is the classic tale of boys stranded on a desert island, Ralph, Jack and Peterkin. Originally written in 1857 it's a jolly tale of good-hearted boys who work together to survive. It's very much of its time. Nearly 100 years later William Golding came along and wrote The Lord of The Flies which took a very different approach to how children may behave when stranded on an island. 

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