The Castaways

Shipwrecked! The Castaways starts off with a group of people in a ship's boat, the ship itself having foundered in a typhoon in the Celebes sea. The ship's captain and his two children, the Irish ship's carpenter, and the Malay pilot are all that finally make it to shore, though first there is a body that has to be thrown overboard, and then a seaman goes mad and throws himself overboard before the lifeboat can reach shore. Danger and high adventure abounds!

Thomas Mayne Reid (April 4, 1818 October 22, 1883) was a Scots-Irish American novelist. He fought in the American-Mexican War. His many works are about American life, in which he describes the colonial policy in the United States, the horrors of slave labor, and the lives of American Indians. "Captain" Reid wrote many adventure novels akin to those written by Frederick Marryat and Robert Louis Stevenson. He was a great admirer of Lord Byron. These novels contain action that takes place primarily in places including, but not limited to: the American West, Mexico, South Africa, the Himalayas, and Jamaica.

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