Books with title Milo and the Mysterious Island

The Mysterious Island: Illustrated by Jules Verne. - In Three Parts: I. Dropped from the Clouds, II. Abandoned, III. The Secret of the Island. Fully Illustrated with 154 Illustrations from the Original edition by Jules-Descartes Férat, engraving Charles Barbant, Published by J. Hetzel, in Paris, 1875. The novel is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, though thematically it is vastly different from those books. The Mysterious Island" has by common consent been pronounced the most successful and the most absorbing of Jules Verne's works. In recognition of its wide popularity, the publishers herewith offer to the youth of the World in a single volume the complete work which originally appeared in three volumes. The work has been pronounced "A new Robinson Crusoe with all the modern improvements." You will find amusement and instruction. One of three books that inspired Journey 2: The Mysterious Island.

In The Mysterious Island, the five main characters (and their dog) find themselves stranded on a small, undiscovered island in the South Pacific. They are thousands of miles from civilization and all other human contact, and they have no way of sending or going for help. So the group set about making the best of what they have and embark on civilizing the island. They literally begin their adventure with nothing, not even a knife or a means of making fire. As the novel progresses, they evolve their tools and their luxuries by following in the footsteps of their ancestors, learning to become hunters, farmers, blacksmiths, even scientists, and progressing at an incredibly fast rate. This is mainly thanks to the unbelievably vast knowledge of their leader Captain Harding (or Smith in some editions). He teaches them how to carve furniture, forge iron and create explosives, the materials for which they are happily able to extract from the island’s natural resources. The islanders are also subject to a remarkable series of lucky breaks, such as a chest filled with clothing and navigation equipment washing up on the shore, or their dog Top being mysteriously saved from an attack by a sea creature, which they at first try to dismiss as fortunate coincidences. However, as these odd events mount up, even Captain Harding’s severely logical brain struggles to find rational explanations for them all, and the group are forced to consider the possibility that a God-like presence also inhabits their island.