The Mysterious Island (French: L'Île mystérieuse) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. The original edition, published by Hetzel, contains a number of illustrations by Jules Férat. 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.
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The book tells the adventures of five Americans on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. The story begins in the American Civil War, during the siege of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America.
As famine and death ravage the city, five northern prisoners of war
decide to escape by the unusual means of hijacking a balloon. The five
are Cyrus Smith, a railroad engineer in the Union army (named Cyrus Harding in some English translations); his black manservant Neb (short for Nebuchadnezzar), whom Verne repeatedly states is not a slave but an ex-slave who had been freed by Smith; the sailor Bonadventure Pencroff
(who is addressed only by his surname, but his "Christian name",
Bonadventure, is given to their boat; in other translations, he is also
known as Pencroft)
Eventually, the island explodes in a volcanic eruption. Jup the
orangutan falls down a crack in the ground and dies. The colonists,
warned by Nemo, find themselves at sea on the last remaining boulder of
the island that is above sea level. They are rescued by the ship Duncan, which has come to pick up Ayrton and was itself informed by a message left on Tabor Island by Nemo.
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