The Mysterious Island
“Bill Homewood’s resonant bass is a fine match for Jules Verne’s 1875 sprawling sequel to his landmark work Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea…Homewood keeps the narrative focused and…provides a classic voice for a classic nineteenth-century fantasy adventure.”
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The year is 1866; the American Civil War is at its height. Five prisoners of war hatch an audacious plan to escape their camp by balloon.
After a perilous 6,000-mile journey in a fierce storm, they are “shipwrecked” on an unknown Pacific island. What follows is a thrilling tale of resourcefulness, courage, and suspense. Together with our heroes we learn to hunt, to make weapons and pottery, to calculate our position by the sun, to extract iron, and even to make explosives from the island’s remarkable natural resources.
As in all Verne’s novels, the plot is packed with unexpected and tantalizing mysteries—above all, who is the invisible benefactor who repeatedly saves our heroes from certain death?
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