New edition of a classic adventure novel and one of the most startling, highly praised stories in English literature - a brilliant chronicle of two Sensitive Children's violent voyage from innocence to experience. After ...New edition of a classic adventure novel and one of the most startling, highly praised stories in English literature - a brilliant chronicle of two Sensitive Children's violent voyage from innocence to experience. After a terrible hurricane levels their jamaican estate, the bas-thorntons decide to send their children back to the safety and comfort of England.