Frank Henniker grows up on a barren Pacific island with only a surly castaway who refuses to teach him anything. Left alone, he survives by his own wits until a shipwreck brings Mrs. Reichardt ashore and he learns to read, to pray and to understand what it is to be civilised. Marryat’s son completed the second half.
Marryat’s last book, an unusual Robinsonade about nature and nurture. Download the free EPUB.