Clarissa Kneeland
(1878 - 1950)
Clarissa Abia Kneeland spent much of her youth in the American expatriate utopian colony in Topolobampo, Mexico. After the colony broke up in 1913 she returned to California, where she and her brother, Ira, took up land at the Black Mountain Sanctuary in Prather, California.
Bibliography
Smuggler's Island (1915)
Marian Hadley is cast away on a desert island in the Sea of Cortez along with her four younger siblings, one only a baby, and successfully keeps them alive for seven years until they are finally rescued. This is the first edition which does not have the colored plates by Yohn, added for the Riverside edition in 1928.
Smuggler’s Island and the Devil Fires of San Moros (1928)
Five children, one only a baby, are abandoned on a desert island in the Sea of Cortez. Marian, the eldest, keeps them alive for seven years, waiting for the baby to grow big enough to survive the sea voyage to safety.
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F. C. Yohn