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Publisher's Summary
Heroes Ralph, Jack and Peterkin set sail on the Arrow and are the only three survivors of a fearful shipwreck. They are washed ashore on a seemingly idyllic coral island.
This tranquillity is violently disturbed, first by a tribe of bloodthirsty cannibals and then by the invasion of a vicious pirate and his gang of cut-throats. Will the boys thwart their enemies and live to see England again?
Largely based on Ballantyne’s own experience, as he sailed the seas and roved the countries of the World, ‘The Coral Island’ is a classic adventure story of the Victorian period.
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- Bonnette Herr
- 11-30-10
The longest 10 hours of my Audible membership!
I've always loved stories of survival so the description of this book appealed to me. Unfortunately, I didn't like anything about this book. The story seemed contrived just so the author could tell us what he knows about the South Pacific. The narration at times made me feel like I was being read a bedtime story, and the pronunciation of some words (e.g., porpoise) was grating. Even the production had gaps and bits of music at strange times.
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- Dennis
- 09-05-16
I really enjoyed the first 3/4 of this novel.
The first 3/4 were amazing, but fell apart by the end. It reminded me a lot of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. If you enjoy adventure, survival, with a hint of SciFi (imo) you will enjoy most of this novel. I won't spoil the end, but once the unrealistic heroic actions started happening (him returning) it got very boring and too larger than life for me to like. Would of been a 5/5 but it fell apart at the end.
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- David
- 06-20-16
One of The Best!
Great tale well told. Joyce artfully delivers a true-to-form rendition of Ballantyne's wonderful coming-of-age epic, set in the early days of sail in the South Seas. Bravo!
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- Dodge
- 01-23-20
Religious Propaganda
A good adventure story becomes religious propaganda. The black savages are converted to Christianity and all is well. What bunkum.
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- Paul
- 07-23-13
The Coral Island - An old fashioned adventure
If you could sum up The Coral Island in three words, what would they be?
Thrilling, Fun, Informative.
What did you like best about this story?
This is an old fashioned adventure with all the elements needed to transport you to the islands of the South Pacific and give you a jolly good time. I read this book for the first time when I was 12 years old. I am now 59 and I have re-read it many times throughout my life.
What about Peter Joyce’s performance did you like?
Peter Joyce delivered the story with enthusiasm and feeling.
If you made a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?
A Jolly Good Adventure
Any additional comments?
This is my favorite book ever
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- Jo
- 10-06-19
A sea adventure with charm , innocence , camaraderie and excitement
I loved this book and the Narrator is consistent and very experienced ..... it’s a real cozy exciting sea adventure... with some gruesome gripping bits in it .... love the camaraderie between the three boys!!! Tho they are supposed to be all young as 15, 17, 18 I can’t imagine it cause they seem far too mature ...esp for boys!!! I imagine they are in early 20’s it works for me !!! Love this book and have listened to it a few times as it’s a very layered story ......if u love treasure island you will love this !! It’s very underrated book ... it keeps your attention all the way through !!!
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- nick
- 05-01-17
A memory of childhood!
I first read this book as an avid teenage bookworm and it has remained engrained in my memory ever since!
Now in my mid-fifties it wasn't quite the same of course but it was still a very enjoyable and enthralling experience!
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- Peter
- 08-18-15
Brilliant
This is the perfect desert island tale. Brings to life the Pacific Islands. Boys own adventure.
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- Narrated by: Charlton Griffin
- Length: 13 hrs and 58 mins
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In 1789 HMS Bounty under the command of Lieutenant William Bligh sailed off on a voyage to Tahiti in the South Pacific to obtain breadfruit trees for transplanting in the Caribbean. After a long, difficult voyage, in which a passage of Cape Horn had to be abandoned, the ship finally reached its destination. Within a few months, the Bounty was loaded with breadfruit plants and fresh provisions. But the return voyage never materialized.
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Excellent narration of a classic sea adventure!
- By Homeschooling Mom of 4 on 01-19-15
By: Charles Nordhoff, and others
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Under Drake's Flag
- By: G.A. Henty
- Narrated by: Fred Williams
- Length: 12 hrs and 31 mins
- Unabridged
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A match at bowls was being played in which Drake and other high officers of the fleet were engaged, when a small armed vessel was seen running before the wind into Plymouth Harbor, with all sails set. Her commander landed in haste, and eagerly sought the place where the English lord admiral and his captains were standing. He was master of a Scottish privateer, and he told the English officers that he had that morning seen the Spanish Armada off the Cornish coast.
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Dreadful waste of a credit
- By Frances on 07-12-05
By: G.A. Henty
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A High Wind in Jamaica
- By: Richard Hughes
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 6 hrs and 12 mins
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Set in the 19th century against a backdrop of island life and the vast surrounding seas, A High Wind in Jamaica is the gripping story of the Bas-Thornton children, whose parents send them back to England following a hurricane in the postcolonial Caribbean they call home. Having set sail, the children quickly fall into the hands of pirates. As their voyage continues, things take an awful turn
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Prose that reads like a Child's Fever Dream
- By Darwin8u on 01-02-17
By: Richard Hughes
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The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym
- By: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrated by: Jamie Hanes
- Length: 6 hrs and 37 mins
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Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym is a realistic yet romantic nautical adventure about a young stowaway on the high seas. One day in 1827, Arthur Gordon Pym escapes his dreary life in New Bedford and hides on the Grampus, where he befriends the captain's son, Augustus. The two boys witness and participate in a dazzling series of adventures, including shipwreck, famine, rescue, and voyages all over the world.
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Good but...
- By Marco Berry on 11-17-15
By: Edgar Allan Poe
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Mutiny on the Bounty
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Michael Carman
- Length: 22 hrs and 32 mins
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The mutiny on HMS Bounty, in the South Pacific on 28 April 1789, is one of history's truly great stories - a tale of human drama, intrigue and adventure of the highest order - and in the hands of Peter FitzSimons it comes to life as never before. Commissioned by the Royal Navy to collect breadfruit plants from Tahiti and take them to the West Indies, the Bounty's crew found themselves in a tropical paradise. Five months later, they did not want to leave.
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You don't know the whole story.
- By Justin Sluyter on 05-01-19
By: Peter FitzSimons
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Howard Pyle's Book of Pirates
- By: Howard Pyle, Merle Johnson
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 7 hrs and 54 mins
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Merle Johnson has here gathered together in one volume all of the nineteenth-century author-artist's classic pirate stories that had been scattered through many magazines and books. Well researched and with richly drawn characters, Pyle's work will appeal to students of history and adventure lovers alike.
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Fascinating and wonderfully read
- By Fletch on 09-08-06
By: Howard Pyle, and others
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Wreck of the Whale Ship Essex
- Narrative of the Most Extraordinary and Distressing Shipwreck of the Whale-Ship Essex (Original News Stories of Whale Attacks & Cannibals)
- By: Owen Chase, Thomas Nickerson
- Narrated by: Paul J. McSorley
- Length: 4 hrs and 52 mins
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In one of the most spellbinding accounts of men who go down to the sea in ships, the modern listener is given a seat in the whale boat of Owen Chase as he and his fellow crew and their captain make way in three boats after the wreckage of the Whaleship Essex. The account of how the Essex was wrecked inspired the infamous book Moby Dick and countless movies, including In the Heart of the Sea.
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Excellent telling of the true story
- By Vicki Goodwin on 03-03-16
By: Owen Chase, and others
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Swiss Family Robinson
- By: Johann Wyss
- Narrated by: Jack Sondericker
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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The Swiss Family Robinson recounts the adventures of a father, mother, and four sons marooned on a tropical island. The story unfolds beginning with the tragic storm that claims their ship and the lives of the captain and crew, continuing with their own harrowing battle with the elements and dangerous landing on the remote island shore, and onward through their ingenious use of the materials at hand to survive.
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1812 Classic - served authors purposes
- By Jan on 03-04-13
By: Johann Wyss
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The Tell-Tale Heart
- By: Edgar Allan Poe
- Narrated by: B. J. Harrison
- Length: 15 mins
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It was the eye. The dull, sightless, vulture's eye that shredded his final nerve. But the murder was done so carefully, so perfectly, that only one thing could reveal the whereabouts of the body. B. J. Harrison gives a masterful reading of the famous murder that wouldn't keep quiet. This audiobook was the #3 best-selling audiobook in 2008 at the iTunes Music Store!
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THE VULTURE EYE
- By Jim "The Impatient" on 10-24-16
By: Edgar Allan Poe