- Juvenile fiction, Fiction, Survival after airplane accidents, shipwrecks, Japanese
Michael's parents buy a yacht, and take him off to sail round the world. Washed overboard in a fierce storm, Michael finds himself on the shore of a remote island - and soon discovers he's not alone.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and intimate.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
- effortlessdemanding
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About the book
- Author
- Michael Morpurgo
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 164
- Publisher
- Dean & Son, Heinemann Educational Publishers, Tudem Yayinlari
- Editions
- 41
- Language
- Dutch, German, French, Spanish
- ISBN
- 9781405209489
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“I disappeared on the night before my twelfth birthday.”
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