A review by garleighc
The Coral Island by R.M. Ballantyne

1.0

Don't read this unless you like long-winded body-metaphor-filled descriptions of landscape ("The sun dawned on the Pacific's ample bosom..." and so on for a whole paragraph) or you like boy adventure stories where the boys colonize populations and "introduce" them to Christianity to bring the Pacific islands into capitalist "modernity".