The Wings of the Morning

4.5 stars.
The book is strongly Christian because of the heroine's outspoken faith. It's an enjoyable story, with danger mainly from an enormous cuttlefish (octopus) and a tribe of Dyaks. I did find it a bit of a stretch that so many supplies were easily found to hand (I too would have been content to be marooned with a chest of tea and a box of new books...as well as an able-bodied gentleman with a secret past) but, it definitely helped out our poor characters!
Interesting note about the edition I have: other than this book, first printed twenty years before and considered a classic at that point, only one other book on the series list for this edition (Aldrich's “Story of a Bad Boy”) did not survive to become a household name today. The rest—Heidi, Robinson Crusoe, Black Beauty, An Old-Fashioned Girl, etc, are all well known still. Such old lists of classics always fascinate me; out of the twenty-six, only two were mostly forgotten.