As in all Verne’s novels, the plot is packed with unexpected and tantalising mysteries – above all, who is the invisible benefactor who repeatedly saves our heroes from certain death? Visit naxosaudiobooks.

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. A 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. What follows is a thrilling tale of resourcefulness, courage and suspense. The Mysterious Island (French: LÎle mystérieuse) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. A story of castaways, similar to Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Robinson, the story begins in the American Civil War, during the siege of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America. The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne tells us about the adventure of a group of castaways who use their survivalist savvy to build a functional group on an unknown island.

After a perilous 6,000-mile journey in a fierce storm, they are ‘shipwrecked’ on an unknown Pacific island. 00:00 The Mysterious Island tells the adventures of five Americans on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. Five prisoners of war hatch an audacious plan to escape their camp by balloon. The year is 1866 the American Civil War is at its height. Download or stream The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne, Saddleback Educational Publishing for free on hoopla.

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