The classic tale about a group of British Schoolboys who, completely cut off from society, revert to brutal, primitive tribalism. Starring James Aubrey, Tom Chapin and Hugh Edwards.
Following a world war, a group of school boys survives a plane crash on a deserted island and creates a hellish environment leading to savagery and murder. Two leaders--one civilized, one depraved--epitomize the forces that war eternally in the human spirit.
Sequel to: Rites of passage. Recounts the further adventures of the eighteenth-century fighting ship, converted at the close of the Napoleonic War to carry passengers and cargo from England to Australia.
