But all their work will come to naught - their island's volcano is about to awake! (Summary by Mark)ġ-01 The Storm of 1865. In time, the tiny colony becomes so prosperous that it is able to rescue another castaway from an island a hundred miles away. 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. Deposited on a lonely island in the Pacific, they make do with Yankee ingenuity where Chance has left them nothing. Translated by William Henry Giles Kingston (1814 - 1880)Ī 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. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Mysterious Island
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