"For many days we had been tempest-tossed…the raging storm increased in fury until on the seventh day all hope was lost."

So begins this uplifting tale and delightful adventure story that relates a family's ingenuity and courage as they struggle to survive on an exotic tropical island.

The Robinson family—a minister, his wife, and their four sons—are shipwrecked and become castaways on an island in the East Indies. Although they have lost almost everything in the shipwreck, they are so resourceful at constructing a life for themselves on the island that, when rescue comes, they decline to leave their refuge and their happy life.