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Digital audiobook read by Frederick Davidson.
Originally published in 1812, this is a classic adventure tale of a mother, father and four sons who are shipwrecked on an unnamed (and apparently uncharted) tropical island in the South Seas.
I had never read the book, though I had seen the Disney movie back in the ‘60s. My adult self recognizes the glaringly implausible (and, frankly, impossible) scenarios – penguins AND bears AND ostriches! – but the adventure still captures the imagination. I als ...more
Originally published in 1812, this is a classic adventure tale of a mother, father and four sons who are shipwrecked on an unnamed (and apparently uncharted) tropical island in the South Seas.
I had never read the book, though I had seen the Disney movie back in the ‘60s. My adult self recognizes the glaringly implausible (and, frankly, impossible) scenarios – penguins AND bears AND ostriches! – but the adventure still captures the imagination. I als ...more
This is the book that started my interest in "survival" stories and I recalled it fondly from childhood. Wow- what a bloodthirsty book this is! If it moved, they shot it- in great numbers! OK, so they were eating it all (except the monkeys which they just poisoned en masse). Very un-green by modern standards. I had also not noticed as a child how improbable this place was with almost every kind of animal imaginable, all types of tropical and temperate flora (oak trees and coconut palms, pine tr
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Jan 18, 2013
Kelly
marked it as to-read
Jan 27, 2014
Elsbeth
marked it as to-read
