1-02 An Incident in the War of Secession

The Mysterious Island is another exquisite novel written by the master of adventure writing, Jules Verne. The novel has been seen as the sequel to two other famous novels written by the same author: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaway. 
The story revolves around five Americans who live in a dark and harsh environment as prisoners of the American Civil War.  Depleted by famine and death all around them, the five war prisoners take a big risk and escape by hijacking a hot air balloon. The five fugitives, an engineer, a servant, a former slave, a sailor and a journalist have to face an ugly and destroying storm, crashing on a mysterious volcanic island. 
The five men start a new living there, but circumstances soon become mysterious when a message in a bottle turns up on the beach. With pirate attacks and erupting volcanoes these five escapees get more than they bargained for.  This book is a fun read for anyone with an adventurous spirit deep inside.

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1-01 The Storm of 1865. Voices in the Air.

1-03 Five O’Clock in the Evening

1-04 Lithodomes. The River’s Mouth. The Chimneys.

1-05 Arranging the Chimneys. How to Procure Fire.

The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne

1-02 An Incident in the War of Secession

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