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Danny Dunn and his wonderful friends, Professor Bullfinch, Dr. Grimes, and Joe Pearson, are back again—this time testing their ability to make a desert island comfortable and secure. The chance to be a twentieth-century Robinson Crusoe is exciting enough, but when the plane in which the four are traveling is forced down and the quartet is without even a radio the game becomes very serious. To keep themselves alive and to contact a rescuer they have a single blanket, two cartons of K-rations, a rubber raft's emergency chest containing fish-hooks, signal flares, a large first-aid kit, a flashlight, a compass, 50 feet of light strong cord, two empty canteens, a coil of nylon rope, a large knife with a cork handle, and an emergency radio transmitter.
A story of ten intense, exciting days in which Joe is captured by the natives, Dr. Grimes is caught in his own man-trap and Danny proves he is more scientific in his approach than he seems.
Lots of very amusing pictures by Ezra Jack Keats.
—from the dust jacket
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