![[texts]](/images/mediatype_texts.gif) | The Island Home - Richard Archer, Christopher Romaunt, pseudonyms for James F. Bowman, died 1883
The first American edition was in 1851, and the first British one 1852. James F. Bowman was a Californian journalist, and a very talented one. Eric Quayle, in his book "Ballantyne the Brave" holds that Ballantyne would certainly have read this book at a time, early in his literary career, when he was looking for inspiration for "The Coral Island", which he had contracted to write for Nelsons, the publishers, as the first British edition of "The Island Home" had been published by them...
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