Contents:

• Section One: Marvelous Islands
  • "The Shipwrecked Sailor" by an unknown Egyptian
  • excerpt from The Odyssey by Homer
  • "Sindbad the Sailor - First Voyage" (an Arabian Tale)
  • excerpt from Gulliver's Travels by Jonathan Swift
  • excerpt from The Adventures of Baron Munchhausen by Rudolph Erich Raspe
  • "To Whom This May Come" by Edward Bellamy
• Section Two: Man Alone
  • excerpt from Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
  • excerpt from The Swiss Family Robinson by Johann Rudolf Wyss
  • excerpt from The Masterman Ready by Frederick Marryat
  • excerpt from The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne
  • "German Harry" by W. Somerset Maugham
• Section Three: Supernatural Sites
  • "Guests from Gibbet Island" by Washington Irving
  • "The Isle of Voices" by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • "The Fiend of the Cooperage" by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
  • "Aepyornis Island" by H.G. Wells
  • "A Haunted Island" by Algernon Blackwood
  • "Desert of the Dead" by Arthur J. Burks
• Section Four: Nature in the Raw
  • "The Legend of Last Island" by Lafcadio Hearn
  • "The White Seal" by Rudyard Kipling
  • "The Landing" by Liam O'Flaherty
  • excerpt from Pincher Martin by William Golding
• Section Five: Concentrated Reality
  • excerpt from The Saga of Njal (an anonymous Icelandic Saga)
  • "Mateo Falcone" by Prosper Mérimée
  • "Property" by Giovanni Verga
  • "Semillante" by Guy de Maupassant
  • excerpt from "The Two Hoaxers" by Stratis Myrivilis
• Section Six: Pink-Tinted Adventures
  • excerpt from The Count of Monte Cristo by Alexandre Dumas
  • excerpt from Typee by Herman Melville
  • excerpt from Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson
  • "The Vagrant" by Richard Harding Davis
  • "A Son of Empire" by Lloyd Osbourne
  • "The Most Dangerous Game" by Richard Connell