FeralChildren.com says Hyne's second speculative novel, in which a scientist isolates a boy and girl on two remote tropical islands for experimental purposes. "A Robinsonade of feral man, embodying a philosophy of social development. An interesting document, surprisingly frank for its period, and prepared without the sensationalism of Hyne's other work. It is reasonably rigorous within the author's frame of reference."

Product Description Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: THE SECOND CHAPTER SPEAKS OF THE VAPOUR THAT ROSE. Adam was, as has been hinted, averse to useless exercise ashore. Perhaps the fact of his being so absolutely at his ease in the water may in some degree account for this. Seals, if you will recollect, though fond enough of basking on a solid surface, are not addicted to promenading. But the old saw anent none of us being masters of all our actions, applies even to the autocrat of an Eden, and occasionally force of circumstances made Adam take a longer walk than usual. In one especial instance, a change of this kind from his general routine helped him to make a discovery; and as the faceof his life was utterly transformed thereby, it is worthy of particular detail. The thing of course centred on the chase, and was indeed the outcome of that natural instinct which teaches all sentient animals to avoid the pursuer. Till Adam came there had been a perpetual close- season for the fishing in the lagoon, ever since the coral wall crept up from the deep and enclosed it. His rights, it is true, were invaded by the gannets and other sea-fowl, by the dolphins and the sharks; but their poaching did not amount to much, for the preserves re-stocked themselves very rapidly, and, save for them, he had the whole to himself: but, as with other coverts, the game grew wild if too much disturbed. At least the winged portion—the fish—did; the ground game —mollusca—being less scary. But since it was in the finny tribes that Adam's stomach delighted, he found it was advisable to change his hunting-ground asmuch as possible every day, a piece of lore which it does not take a great deal of intelligence to arrive at. This he did mechanically, and, taking the various beats in rotation, worked methodically from east to west, and began afresh at th...