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by Jules Verne

Author:	Jules Verne
Subcategory:	Action & Adventure
Language:	English
Publisher:	Wilder Publications; Reprint edition (March 26, 2009)
Pages:	412 pages
Category:	Fiction and Literature
Rating:	4.2
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Author of. Twenty thousand leagues under. THE WORLD, Etc. Their Island Home. GROSSET & DUNLAP Publishers.

Author of. The sea, the mysterious island, The lighthouse at the end of. Printed in the United States of America.

The Mysterious Island (French: L'Île mystérieuse) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. The novel is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous.

Title: The Mysterious Island. There was not a continent, nor even an island, visible beneath them. The watery expanse did not present a single speck of land, not a solid surface upon which their anchor could hold. Release Date: August 24, 2008 Last Updated: October 13, 2016. Character set encoding: UTF-8 . Start of this project gutenberg ebook the mysterious island . Produced by Anthony Matonak, Trevor Carlson, and David Widger. The mysterious island. It was the open sea, whose waves were still dashing with tremendous violence!

A Jules Verne Mystery. One thing that was very clear while reading this book is that Jules Verne was a master at telling a story.

A Jules Verne Mystery. The Mysterious Island is an exciting tale of mystery and adventure as a group of castaways struggle to overcome the elements and survive on an uncharted island. The novel was written by Jules Verne in 1874. This is an unusual book for Verne because it's more mystery than science fiction.

The book tells the adventures of five American prisoners of war on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. One of the best books by Jules Verne. I read it during my school days and I got hooked to scientific adventure. The story, the technologies described and scientific spirit, the strong anti-imperialist tone, the adventure spirit makes it a must read for all young men & women.

LibriVox recording of The Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne. Read by Mark F. Smith

LibriVox recording of The Mysterious Island, by Jules Verne. Smith. A story of castaways, similar to Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson, this book details the escape from Civil War-era Richmond, Virginia, of five Northern men who dared to go aloft in a balloon in the midst of a hurricane. Deposited on a lonely island in the Pacific, they make do with Yankee ingenuity where Chance has left them nothing. Only later do they find they have a hidden benefactor: Captain Nemo, of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, who resides, alone, secretly on the island.

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With an Introduction by Alex Dolby Jules Verne (1828-1905) is internationally famous as the author of a distinctive . In The Mysterious Island a group of men escape imprisonment during the American Civil War by stealing a balloon.

With an Introduction by Alex Dolby Jules Verne (1828-1905) is internationally famous as the author of a distinctive series of adventure stories describing new travel technologies which opened up the world and provided means to escape from it. The collective enthusiasm of generations of readers of his extraordinary voyages was a key factor in the rise of modern science fiction. Blown across the world.

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The Mysterious Island tells the exciting story of five Americans stranded on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. During the American Civil War, Richmond, Virginia was the capital of the Confederate States of America. Five northern prisoners of war decide to escape Richmond in a rather unusual way - by hijacking a balloon. After flying in stormy weather for several days, the group crash-lands on a unknown, cliff-bound, volcanic island. Ultimately, Captain Nemo plays an important role in the resolution of this novel.

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sobolica

Published in 1874, the novel is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways. The book tells the adventures of five Americans on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. The story begins in the American Civil War, during the siege of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America. As famine and death ravage the city, five northern prisoners of war decide to escape by hijacking a balloon. After flying in stormy weather for several days, the group crash-lands on a cliff-bound, volcanic, unknown (and fictitious) island. (Wikipedia) This story is "science-y" fiction with the only "supernatural" force being the mysterious and hidden benefactor that renders assistance at the most opportune times as the five men (considering themselves to be colonists) establish themselves on the island. The colonists not only meet their basic needs of food, clothing and shelter, but due to an engineer well versed in all areas of science, they also produce pottery, bricks, nitroglycerin, iron, and a simple electric telegraph.

For me, the most fascinating aspect of this book is that Jules Verne knew so much about science in 1874 that the colonists fantastic feats, although a little far-fetched, are believable in 2015. I found the conversation among the characters about the sustainability of coal energy to be particularly fascinating. How would Jules Verne feel to know that nearly 150 years later, we STILL rely on coal energy! At 500 Kindle pages, this was a lengthy read and at times it felt over-powered with detail. The painstaking process of creating their "Granite House" dwelling includes descriptions of the survey of the island for the best location, the search for the raw materials to make nitroglycerine, the manufacture of nitroglycerine, the preparation of the site, and the creation of instruments and tools to produce bricks and mortar to outfit their home with a hearth, etc. The day-to-day activity of exploring, building, cultivating, hunting, and animal herding is interrupted by a rescue of a castaway from the closest charted island and a battle with pirates.

Despite it's length and occasional tedium, I felt compelled to finish the book and stick with the colonists to learn their fate.

GEL

As a child I was introduced to , "The Mysterious Island," through a 1961 film complete with giant mutant animals and other horrific dangers. That is not the story Jules Verne wrote.

Details of survival and people caring for one another are the mainstay of thus novel, a combination of adventure and gentleness, tensions and success, mysteries and discovery.

Jules Verne is a bit of a slow read but I find his work to be satisfying. It is reading a classic. A dictionary of scientific terms in the areas of geography, botany, zoology, and geology seemed necessary at times.

People looking for a fairly long yet satisfying read will like this book. It is interesting to note that, in keeping with the moral writing styles of its time, there is no sexual suggestions. Indeed there are no women on this island nor the suggestion that they were even missed!

So get in your balloon and escape to "The Mysterious Island," for an interesting and different read.

Gholbirdred

Think of this book as "Lost" for the Civil War era. Prisoners escape a Confederate prison camp/city in a balloon, which is blown by a hurricane to a mysterious island, where they survive and thrive, while mysteries slowly build up.

I read this book back in high school, but only remembered a few high points, including the central mystery's resolution. Re-reading it now, and listening to the audio book, led me to re-evaluate it. Be aware that even though it was probably fairly progressive, when it was written, that description does not hold up today. Neither does some of the science, including how the hurricane moved. I also have to wonder if this book is where the idea of 'monkey butlers' came from.

Also, please note that this book is almost required reading for fans of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.

Tehn

This book was a favorite of mine as a child but this version was a much better translation. Decades later it is still an affecting story of man's perseverance. Verne' s style is to write the incredible, perhaps not always the believable. You would have to have quite the scientific mind to understand whether the works of Cyrus Harding were even possible. Or understand the accuracy of Herbert's descriptions of the flora and fauna. But this is science-fiction so it is unimportant in the end. Very stimulating for the mind.

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