Young Nigel Roy sails with his father to the Sunda Strait, where he meets the lonely hermit of Rakata, explores his island cave, and sets out on a canoe voyage through pirate waters. All the while the volcano of Krakatoa grows restless, building to the catastrophic eruption of 1883, which Ballantyne researched in the Royal Society’s report.
Victorian boys’ adventure built around a real natural disaster, by the author of The Coral Island. Download the free EPUB.