자료유형  

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Control Number  

n902724583

International Standard Book Number  

9781590773253 electronic bk.

International Standard Book Number  

159077325X electronic bk.

International Standard Book Number  

9781590773246

Library of Congress Call Number  

PS3525.U7447

Dewey Decimal Classification Number  

813.52-23

Main Entry-Personal Name  

Murphy, Robert , 1902-1971

Physical Description  

1 online resource.

Summary, Etc.  

요약This is the story of a sixteen-year-old boy who finds his way to the beginning of manhood during a great and memorable adventure in the world of nature. Geordie Sutton was more interested in the wildlife of the prairie slough and along the Iowa River than he was in following his father's footsteps into the practice of law. His world stretched comfortably from quiet, tree-lined streets with well-spaced houses to clandestine adventures on the river. But the turn of the century was still not far behind, and not even the impact of Darwin could persuade Geordie's father that a career in natural science was anything more than an excuse to loaf in the outdoors. Questioning his own right to choose a life of which his father disapproved, Geordie joined an expedition to Laysan Island, an atoll in the Pacific, where five species of oceanic birds unique to that island were threatened with extinction. There, among colonies of albatross, miller birds, shearwaters, honey eaters and teal, finch and little flightless rails, as well as seals, huge turtles, and most surprisingly of all, rabbits which the expedition had come to kill, Geordie learned that life is full of cruelty as well as beauty, and that no man can stand aside from involvement with both these forces. A Certain Island is Robert Murphy's fourth novel, a story of a classic adolescent conflict set against a background of true natural adventure.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Teenage boys Juvenile fiction

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Fathers and sons Juvenile fiction

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Birds Hawaii Laysan Island Fiction

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Nature stories Juvenile fiction

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JUVENILE FICTION / General

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Birds.

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Fathers and sons.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Nature stories.

Subject Added Entry-Topical Term  

Teenage boys.

Subject Added Entry-Geographic Name  

Hawaii Laysan Island.

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joongbu:499546