Perseverance Island; Or, The Robinson Crusoe of the Nineteenth Century

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Perseverance Island, by Douglas Frazar
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ABANDONING THE GOOD LUCK. — Frontispiece.
Copyright ,
1884,
By Lee and Shepard.
All Rights Reserved.
PERSEVERANCE ISLAND.
ELECTROTYPED BY
C. J. Peters and Son, Boston.
To My Wife.
In all works of the Robinson Crusoe type, the wreck is always near at hand, the powder dry and preserved, and the days for rafting the same ashore calm and pleasant. This unfortunate had no such accessories; and his story proves the limitless ingenuity and invention of man, and portrays the works and achievements of a castaway, who, thrown ashore almost literally naked upon a desert isle, is able by the use of his brains, the skill of his hands, and a practical knowledge of the common arts and sciences, to far surpass the achievements of all his predecessors, and to surround himself with implements of power and science utterly beyond the reach of his prototype, who had his wreck as a reservoir from which to draw his munitions.