@mouse Glad to hear I'm not the only one who had that ambition! Even though I liked this, I liked The Coral Island by R.M. Ballantyne even more. Then when I got a little older my aunt and uncle bought me a huge book with the Mutiny on the Bounty trilogy in it. And so many more, some of them I can't even remember the titles - I just remember where they were in the library! (Which does me no good, because I went to the library a couple of years ago when I went back to the town there I grew up, and it has been totally rearranged since I was a kid.)