The island home, or, The adventures of six young Crusoes / by Richard Archer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Archer, Richard, author.

Contributor:

Dalziel Brothers, engraver.

Series:

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Robinsonades.

Castaways--Juvenile fiction.

Castaways.

Oceania--Juvenile fiction.

Oceania.

Oceania Region.

Genre:

Fiction.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (ix, 383 pages, 8 unnumbered leaves of plates) : illustrations.

Other Title:

Adventures of six young Crusoes

Island home

Place of Publication:

London : George Routledge and Company, 1854.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Ostensibly based on a true story of six of the passengers of the ship "Washington", which sailed from New York 20 years before the date of this book, under the captaincy of a Mr. Erskine. The six youths are set adrift in the South Pacific by the mutineering crew. They finally land on a desert island and have many adventures with nature and islanders as they struggle to survive. "The names of these castaways were: John Browne, the son of a Glasgow merchant; William Morton, and Maximilian Adeler, of New York; Richard Archer, from Connecticut, the journalist; John Livingstone, from Massachusetts; Arthur Hamilton, whose parents had settled at Tahieti"--Introduction.

Notes:

"Fourth thousand."

Illustrations engraved and signed by: Dalziel.

Publisher's advertisements following text.

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.

OCLC:

905318581

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.