Other editions of book 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.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience. We believe this work is culturally important and have elected to bring the book back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide.

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