Edmund Gordon · Bloody Cavemen: Golding’s Island
- At the end of The Coral Island (1857), the teenage castaways are rescued from bloodthirsty ‘savages’ by the arrival of Christian missionaries.
- Ballantyne’s most famous book – which was required reading for British and American schoolchildren until the middle of the 20th century – pitches an ideal of Victorian boyhood against godless pirates and backward foreigners.
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- At the end of The Coral Island (1857), the teenage castaways are rescued from bloodthirsty ‘savages’ by the arrival of Christian missionaries.
- Ballantyne’s most famous book – which was required reading for British and American schoolchildren until the middle of the 20th century – pitches an ideal of Victorian boyhood against godless pirates and backward foreigners.
Sources: Lrb