Crusoes of Sunday Island by Elsie K. Morton. 1957, first edition.

Crusoes of Sunday Island by Elsie K. Morton. Publisher: G.Bell & Sons, Ltd., London, 1957, first edition.

Good hardback with jacket, binding firm, minor bumping and marks, slight lean to spine, tape marks and small abrasion inside front & rear boards, large bookplate to ffep, pages foxed. Jacket is price-clipped, chipped and marked with taped edges.

"It is the story of Tom Bell, an adventurous New Zealander who was a born pioneer. He wanted more than anything else to find an uninhabited Pacific island, take his wife and children there, become a planter, and open up a trading station. In 1878 he and his family settled on Sunday Island, some six hundred miles north of Auckland. "From the very start the family had to live the life of true desert islanders. The food they had bought from the captain of the trading schooner who had brought them to the island proved to be rotten. They had been cheated and deserted, for the schooner never returned, and it was to be another year before they saw anyone from the outside world. But they survived and increased, raising a family of ten in isolation, and making an Eden of their island. 189 pages, illustrated.

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