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The gorilla hunters

a tale of the wilds of Africa

by Robert Michael Ballantyne · 1860

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Three English boys, shipwrecked on a deserted island, create an idyllic society despite typhoons, sharks, wild hogs, and hostile visitors, and then pirates kidnap one of the boys, whose adventures continue among the South Sea Islands.

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