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How is this book unique?Font adjustments & biography includedUnabridged (100% Original content)IllustratedAbout The Secret of the Island by Jules VerneDuring the Civil War, the engineer Smith, Neb his servant, the Spilett journalist, the sailor Pencroff and Harbert teenager to escape the southerners holding prisoners, fleeing with a ball. They land in calamity on an uncharted island they baptize "Lincoln Island." This island appears deserted but a mystery hangs over her and shipwrecked feel a benevolent and enigmatic presence. It is a book of great and strange adventures where Jules Verne had fun with his immense talent to tell us this story. Jules Verne (1828-1905) is one of the most recognizable names in Western literature, coming to be known as one of the Fathers of Science-Fiction. Although he studied to be a lawyer and held stock trading jobs, he quickly learned that he had a knack for weaving adventurous stories of travels and expeditions. It didn’t hurt that one of his teachers may have been inventor Brutus de Villeroi, who created the first submarine for the U.S. Navy. Verne wrote about air travel and space travel 50 years before either was possible.

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