The Rover Boys on Land and Sea: The Crusoes of Seven Islands
1903
The Rover Boys on Land and Sea: The Crusoes of Seven Islands
1903
Three brothers. One enemy. A whole lot of Pacific Ocean. Dick, Tom, and Sam Rover arrive in San Francisco ready for adventure, but trouble finds them fast: Dan Baxter, the school's former bully and all-around menace, has surfaced with theft on his mind. Stripped of their possessions before their journey even begins, the brothers give chase across the high seas, through fog-shrouded islands, and into the kind of misadventure that defined an era of American children's literature. Edward Stratemeyer knew exactly what his young readers wanted in 1903: rapid action, loyal brothers, detestable villains, and islands teeming with possibility. The Crusoes of Seven Islands delivers all of this and more, a rollicking adventure that owes as much to Robinson Crusoe as it does to the endless optimism of the Progressive Era. It is pure, uncut juvenile adventure fiction, and it remains exactly as thrilling as it was over a century ago.
