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It is sometimes very wordy, but one can expect that. Note, this is the sesquicentennial of the death of a main character in this book. Good Read Always liked Jules Verne style at writing. Part of a series of stories.
On to Abandoned linked to this tale somehow. Jup , o orangotango. Thought this was the same as The Mysterious Island but is only a part of it. Stopping this and reading The Mysterious Island from the beginning. I do not suggest reading it without reading the entire book, as a reader you miss out on so much character development and storyline.
Not bad Pretty good It wasent to bad ykou got to love Jules Vern no no no no no no no no. I have a bad memory.
So, obviously, this title must have a special place in my heart for me to be able to remeber it so vividly after 20 years. My first big adventure book!
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Otherwise reasonably clean tight text has some spotting throughout. Book is a bit cocked and otherwsise out of shape. Covers are otherwsie reasonably bright and clean.. Award certificate dated Foxing to endpapers and page edges. Award certificate pasted in. Greville Press Pamphlets, Inscription of owner at start of book.
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All of the internal pages are unmarked and uncreased, the only flaws are a couple of minor scuffs to the boards, some fading to the spine, an inscription to the front endpaper, some slight looseness to the front cover where it meets the spine and one of the pages is slightly loose, a reading copy only. Advanced Book Search Browse by Subject. Find Rare Books Book Value. Sign up to receive offers and updates: The plot focuses on the adventures of five Americans on an uncharted island in the South Pacific.
During the American Civil War , five northern prisoners of war decide to escape, during the siege of Richmond, Virginia , by hijacking a balloon. The company is completed by Cyrus' dog "Top". They name it "Lincoln Island" in honor of their president, Abraham Lincoln. With the knowledge of the brilliant engineer Smith, the five are able to sustain themselves on the island, producing fire, pottery, bricks, nitroglycerin , iron, a simple electric telegraph , a home on a stony cliffside called "Granite House", and even a seaworthy ship, which they name the "Bonadventure" in honor of Pencroff, the driving force behind its construction.
They also manage to figure out their geographical location.
During their stay on the island, the group endures bad weather, and domesticates an orangutan , Jupiter, abbreviated to Jup or Joop, in Jordan Stump's translation. There is a mystery on the island in the form of an unseen deus ex machina , responsible for Cyrus' survival after falling from the balloon, the mysterious rescue of Top from a dugong , the appearance of a box of equipment guns and ammunition, tools, etc.
The group finds a message in a bottle directing them to rescue a castaway on nearby Tabor Island , who is none other than Tom Ayrton from In Search of the Castaways.
On the return voyage to Lincoln Island, they lose their way in a tempest but are guided back to their course by a mysterious fire beacon. Ayrton's former companions arrive by chance on Lincoln Island, and try to make it into their lair. After some fighting with the protagonists, the pirate ship is mysteriously destroyed by an explosion. Six of the pirates survive and kidnap Ayrton. When the colonists go to look for him, the pirates shoot Harbert, seriously injuring him. Harbert survives, but suffers from his injury, narrowly cheating death.
The colonists at first assume Ayrton to have been killed, but later they find evidence that he was not instantly killed, leaving his fate uncertain. When the colonists rashly attempt to return to Granite House before Harbert fully recovers, Harbert contracts malaria and is saved by a box of quinine sulphate, which mysteriously appears on the table in Granite House. After Harbert recovers, they attempt to rescue Ayrton and destroy the pirates. They discover Ayrton at the sheepfold, and the pirates dead, without any visible wounds. The secret of the island is revealed when it is discovered to be Captain Nemo 's hideout, and home port of the Nautilus.
Having escaped the Maelstrom at the end of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea , the Nautilus sailed the oceans of the world until all its crew except Nemo had died. Now an old man with a beard, Nemo returned the Nautilus to its secret port within Lincoln Island. Nemo had been the mysterious benefactor of the settlers, providing them with the box of equipment, sending the message revealing Ayrton, planting the torpedo that destroyed the pirate ship, and killing the pirates with an "electric gun".
On his death bed Captain Nemo reveals his true identity as the lost Indian Prince Dakkar, son of a Raja of the then independent territory of Bundelkund and a nephew of the Indian hero Tippu-Sahib. After taking part in the failed Indian Rebellion of , Prince Dakkar escaped to a desert island with twenty of his compatriots and commenced the building of the Nautilus and adopted the new name of "Captain Nemo".
Nemo also tells his life story to Cyrus Smith and his friends. Before he dies, he gives them a box of diamonds and pearls as a keepsake. Afterwards, he dies, crying "God and my country!