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Riassunto: 8 min di lettura
- Tempo di lettura
- Circa 7 h5 h 35 min fast, 8 h 20 min slow
- Durata
- 99.900 parole
- Livello nella biblioteca
- Medio longer sentences, everyday words
- Prima pubblicazione
- 1889by R. M. Ballantyne
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This book suits readers who love sea voyages, jungle expeditions and friendly humour, and anyone curious about volcanoes, rainforest wildlife and the real story of Krakatoa.
Che cos’è questo libro
Picture a brig becalmed on the Indian Ocean in the darkest hour of a night in 1883. Two men pace the quarterdeck in silence. Then the captain feels a fine dust settle on his sleeve and shouts for every sail to come in. Far away, beyond the horizon, a volcano is stirring.
Blown to Bits, or the Lonely Man of Rakata, was written by R. M. Ballantyne and published in 1889, six years after the Krakatoa eruption. He built it on the report of the Royal Society committee. You get an adventure story with real science inside it, and a gentle giant who lives in a cave under a restless mountain.
In questo riassunto
- 1A storm of ash drives the Sunshine off courseFree
- 2Kathy's lost father and the one-eyed pirate
- 3A holiday, a boatman and the hermit's cave
- 4A canoe voyage, a squall and a face in the moonlight
- 5Dyak villages, a pirate camp and a hunt for the mias
- 6Tigers, a python and the hermit's secret grief
- 7Back to a mountain that cannot be trusted
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A storm of ash drives the Sunshine off course
Captain David Roy and his son Nigel pace the quarterdeck of the brig Sunshine, arguing gently about poetry. The captain says poetry belongs to his wife and nobody else. Nigel, fresh from college, insists he is no true sailor. Their teasing shows the warm bond that holds the whole book together.
Then the captain feels ash on his sleeve. He mutters that Vulcan must be cooking up a new brew near the Sunda Strait. He checks the barometer and orders all sail taken in. A gale roars out of the strait and drives the brig before it all night. By morning the foretopmast has snapped with a report like a cannon shot. The old man does not complain. He holds that nothing is a misfortune until it is proved one.
The damaged brig limps toward the Cocos-Keeling Islands, a coral ring around a still lagoon. On the way the captain tells the history of the place. A Scotsman named Ross claimed it and brought his family. Two cyclones flattened the settlement, and Ross's son, an engineer, rebuilt everything with steam mills, a school and neat plank cottages.
Nigel falls in love with the islands at first sight. The water glows with darting fish, and the islanders are gentle and hospitable. His father wants to leave as soon as a spare mast is rigged. Business first, he says, and pleasure afterward.
A ruined voyage becomes the first step of a much larger journey.
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Every format is free to start, and print and large print are at cost.
- LengthAbout 99,900 words
- Reading timeAbout 7 h
- FormatseBook, large-print eBook, audiobook, 15-minute summary
- LanguagesEnglish and 12 other languages
Questions about Fatti a pezzi; ovvero, L'uomo solitario del Rakata
What is Blown to Bits by R. M. Ballantyne about?
It follows Nigel Roy, a young Englishman, who joins the hermit of Rakata on a canoe journey through the Malay Archipelago. They meet pirates, orangutans and tigers while the volcano Krakatoa grows more restless, until the great eruption of 1883.
Is Blown to Bits based on a true story?
The characters are invented, but the eruption of Krakatoa in 1883 is real. Ballantyne published the book in 1889 and used the Royal Society's report for facts about the explosions, the waves, the death toll and the strange sunsets.
Who is Moses in Blown to Bits?
Moses is the hermit's faithful Black servant and friend. He is strong, funny and talkative, and he speaks in a lively dialect. He first befriends Nigel in Batavia and brings him to the hermit's cave.
Who is the hermit of Rakata?
He is Van der Kemp, a scientist, inventor and traveller born in Java who lives in a cave beneath the peak of Rakata on Krakatoa. He is gentle and deeply religious, and he carries a private sorrow that gradually emerges.
Is Blown to Bits easy to read?
It is a Victorian adventure novel. Dialogue is lively, and each chapter ends with a good reason to turn the page.
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Ballantyne, R. M. Blown to Bits; Or, the Lonely Man of Rakata. Library of Alexandria, 2026, libraryofalexandria.com/products/blown-to-bits-or-the-lonely-man-of-rakata.
Ballantyne, R. M. (2026). Blown to bits; or, the lonely man of Rakata. Library of Alexandria. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/blown-to-bits-or-the-lonely-man-of-rakata (Original work published 1889)
Ballantyne, R. M. Blown to Bits; Or, the Lonely Man of Rakata. Library of Alexandria, 2026. https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/blown-to-bits-or-the-lonely-man-of-rakata.
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year = {2026},
url = {https://libraryofalexandria.com/products/blown-to-bits-or-the-lonely-man-of-rakata},
note = {First published 1889}
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