They sound like real gems, or more like gemstone mines for a writer!
Oh it’s funny too when they return to the island
they make one of the seamen governor but then later
the lawyer and the newspaper gang up on him and turn
the rest of the inhabitants against him and get
him banished. What we face today is reflected in
these stories of a hundred years ago.
I’ve often thought that there is one good movie hollywood
could make but never will, where a typical American family
becomes swept up in a terrorist action and has to come
together and use individual initiative and American ideals
to survive and overcome the terrorists. Never happen.