title: The Island: Book 1 - The Story
author:  E.C. Lartigue 
description: EC Lartigue is a pastor with a poet's heart and a storyteller's mind. He is a missions pastor in Oklahoma and has traveled extensively around the world, sharing the everlasting story. He and his wife live in Jenks, Oklahoma.
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  # The Island Queen
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### R.M. Ballantyne
  
  
  This page copyright © 2003 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  Chapter One. Dethroned by Fire and Water — A Tale
  
  
  of the Southern Hemisphere.
  
  
  Chapter Two. Wrecked on a Reef.
  
  
  Chapter Three. Explorations and Discoveries.
  
  
  Chapter Four. Difficulties met and overcome.
  
  
  Chapter Five. Stirring Events and Changes.
  
  
  Chapter Six. Shipwrecked Emigrants and Horrified
  
  
  Conspirators.
  
  
  Chapter Seven. Treats of Big Island — A Great
  
  
  Fight and a Royal Family.
  
  
  Chapter Eight. The Coronation — Crown-Making
  
  
  Deliberations, Ceremonials, and Catastrophes.
  
  
  Chapter Nine. Shows how they were tormented by an
  
  
  Old Familiar Fiend; How they killed him, and what befell the Queen and
  
  
  Otto while in the Pursuit of Legitimate Pleasure.
  
  
  Chapter Ten. Describes a Rescue, a Conspiracy, and
  
  
  a Trial.
  
  
  Chapter Eleven. Shows how the Queen Conducted
  
  
  herself in Trying Circumstances, and was Finally D