Palm Tree Island
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Editor's review
Who it's for
A good fit for
- Young readers looking for introductory reading in the original English
- General readers who enjoy island adventure and survival themes
- Learners who need short English material for extensive reading practice
- Enthusiasts interested in early juvenile adventure fiction
Not a good fit for
- Readers who prefer complex character psychology and literary experimentation
- Researchers who need detailed historical background annotations
- Readers not interested in adventure themes and young protagonists
Reading tips
- Read through chapter by chapter, noting character relationships and key events on the island to keep the reading pace.
- Collect vocabulary related to seafaring and nature description into a thematic word list.
- After finishing, retell the main conflict and how it is resolved to check your grasp of the plot threads.
About the publisher
Project Gutenberg is a digital publishing project focused on public-domain ebooks. Its publishing direction centers on classic literary works whose copyright has expired, covering genres such as poetry, drama, fiction, and epic. Representative books include Lyrical Ballads by Wordsworth and Coleridge, Proust's Du côté de chez Swann, Shakespeare's Macbeth and The Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Homer's The Iliad, Dante's La Divina Comèdia: Purgatòri, Cervantes's The History of Don Quixote, Volume 2, and Grahame's The Wind in the Willows. Its author resources consist mainly of classic Western writers such as Wordsworth, Proust, Shakespeare, Homer, Dante, Cervantes, Grahame, and Tolstoy. Its publishing feature is the provision of freely accessible ebooks in EPUB and Kindle formats; it is not a traditional publisher, and publicly available information is limited.
Contents
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About the author
Herbert Strang is a shared pen name used by British writers of adventure stories for young readers, referring to George Herbert Ely (1866–1958) and Charles James Lestrange (1867–1947). Public information about their personal lives is limited. Both long worked at Oxford University Press, and together they wrote numerous adventure tales set against historical and science-fictional backgrounds, with thirteen works held in this collection. Their subjects range widely: colonial adventures in India and the African highlands, and military and naval narratives built around figures such as Clive, Drake and Marlborough, as in In Clive's Command and With Drake on the Spanish Main, alongside science-fiction adventures such as Round the World in Seven Days. Their stories are marked by tense plotting and lively factual detail, combining historical education with youthful inspiration, and stand as notable examples of early twentieth-century British reading for boys.
