The Mysterious Island

Published in 1875

Categories: For TeensAdventure

A crashed balloon on a rocky shore, with men struggling in its net among seabirds
Illustration: Jules Férat, The Mysterious Island (1875)

Five men escape a Civil War siege in a balloon, and a storm throws them onto an unknown island in the Pacific with nothing but the clothes they stand in. Led by the engineer Cyrus Harding, they make fire, bricks, iron and glass from what they find. But strange things keep happening: a bullet in a wild pig, a box washed ashore, a light in the night. Someone else is on the island. Jules Verne's novel appeared in 1875.

Translated from the French by Agnes Kinloch Kingston (1875).

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