The Island Queen
by Robert Michael Ballantyne
Publisher: ManyBooks 1885
ISBN/ASIN: 1606645935
Number of pages: 170
Description:
Pauline, Otto, and Dominick were children cast into the wild South Seas ocean. The brave Rigonda family of England, however, clung to life on their lifeboat despite the demise of the rest of the castaways, searching weakly for a sail in the distance. Instead, they found a dead ship, wrecked on a reef.
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