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Kitalong, Karla Saari; Emond, Rod. Rev. of Rod Emond, Representing the South Pacific: Colonial Discourse from Cook to Gauguin. Pacific Affairs. 1999–2000, 72 (4): 623–625. JSTOR 2672435. doi:10.2307/2672435.
Miller, John. Adventures in the Volcano's Throat: Tropical Landscape and Bodily Horror in R. M. Ballantyne's Blown to Bits. Victorian Review. 2008, 34 (1): 115–130. JSTOR 41220406. S2CID 162508944. doi:10.1353/vcr.2008.0021.
Honaker, Lisa. "One Man to Rely On": Long John Silver and the Shifting Character of Victorian Boys' Fiction. Journal of Narrative Theory. 2004, 34 (1): 27–53. JSTOR 30225794. S2CID 162220139. doi:10.1353/jnt.2004.0003.
Elleray, M. Little Builders: Coral Insects, Missionary Culture, and the Victorian Child. Victorian Literature and Culture. 2010, 39: 223. S2CID 162940808. doi:10.1017/S1060150310000367.