who drifted on a life raft for ten days without food or water, was proclaimed a national hero, kissed by beauty queens, made rich through publicity, and then spurned by the government and forgotten for all time
Three English boys, Ralph, Jack, and Peterkin, create an idyllic society for themselves after being shipwrecked on a coral reef in the South Seas, but their paradise is disturbed by the arrival of cannibals and pirates.
During one of his several adventurous voyages in the 1600's an Englishman becomes the sole survivor of a shipwreck and lives for nearly thirty years on a deserted island.
