On 2009-12-28 Lydia Presley, Georgia wrote: I loved and hated this book. In The Mysterious Island Jules Verne creates a story similar to The Swiss Family Robinson story that I grew up loving. But this book is much more in depth and provides an intriguing mystery to spice things up.
Five men escape from America during the Civil War in a balloon. They are blown far south and are wrecked upon an island with no supplies.
Verne goes in depth in how the men manage to make a colony out of nothing. In their party are an engineer, a newspaper man, a freed slave, a boy and a sailor. With their combined knowledge (and the superb knowledge of the engineer) they manage to make an island life worthy of making even a modern person wishing to visit.
Throughout the book Verne drops ´mysterious occurances´. These keep the reader highly interested despite pages and pages of descriptions that Verne is notorious for. Despite the slow movement throughout 75% of the book this is, by far, my favorite of his novels. If you are interested in survival (and the men in this book are what a ´real´ survivor is) and science this book is certain to satisfy you. And summed up by saying Review of The Mysterious Island. Currently The Mysterious Island (Modern Library Classics) has an overall rating of 8 over 10.
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Jordan Stump claimed Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, The Mysterious Island is considered by many to be Jules Verne’s masterpiece. “Wide-eyed mid-nineteenth-century humanistic optimism in a breezy, blissfully readable translation by Stump” (Kirkus Reviews), here is the enthralling tale of five men and a dog who land in a balloon on a faraway, fantastic island of bewildering goings-on and their struggle to survive as they uncover the island’s secret.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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