Crusoes of Sunday Island

Previous owner's inscription on front endpaper. Some small 5mm chips to corners of dust-jacket and ends of dust-jacket spine. Dust-jacket protected in archival mylar cover.; First New Zealand edition. [2], 189 pages + 23 illustrations on 8 plate leaves. 1 full page map "Raoul or Sunday Island". Grey boards with maroon turtle illustration on front board, maroon lettering on spine. Page dimensions: 204 x 131mm. "Crusoes of Sunday Island is a factual account of the experiences and adventures of the Bell family on Sunday Island presented in story form [. . .] Mrs. Dyke, now in her eighty-ninth year, possesses a remarkable memory, and has told in full detail the story of her extraordinary childhood and of her parents heart-braking misfortunes in the early years of their Sunday Island sojourn. [. . .] This story of an actual family's adventures obviously cannot be compared as a work of literature with Robinson Crusoe nor with the uninhibited invention of The Swiss Family Robinson. But I hope that its authenticity may win it a place of its own in the never-too-full shelf of desert island books. The interest of the Bell saga lies in its grim realism, from the day Thomas Bell landed with his family on Sunday Island's surf-swept shore to his embittered departure thirty-five years later." - from the Author's Note. Contents: Author's Note; A Kingdom for the Taking; Heading South; The Landing; The First Day and After; A Night in the Oven; The Watch for the Norval; The Ship; North Beach; The Dream takes Shape; Storm, Shakespeare and Careers; Birds, Whales and Sharks; The Green Island Kingdom; Whisky, Serpents and Parakeets; The Annexation; The Cyclone and the End; Afterwards.

Product Info

Publisher: A. H. & A. W. Reed

Year: (1964)

Type: Used

Binding: Hardcover

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Country: New Zealand