The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne AudioBook eBook

SCIENCE FICTION / FICTION AND LITERATURE / ADVENTURE

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. Deposited on a lonely island in the Pacific, they make do with Yankee ingenuity where Chance has left them nothing. Only later do they find they have a hidden benefactor: Captain Nemo, of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, who resides, alone, secretly on the island. In time, the tiny colony becomes so prosperous that it is able to rescue another castaway from an island a hundred miles away. But all their work will come to naught – their island’s volcano is about to awake! (Summary by Mark)

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Author: Jules Verne

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same day another important personage fell into the hands of the Southerners. This was no other than Gideon Spilen, a reporter for the New York Herald, who had been ordered to follow the changes of the war in the midst of the Northern armies.

Gideon Spilett was one of that race of indomitable English or American chroniclers, like Stanley and others, who stop at nothing to obtain exact information, and transmit it to their journal in the shortest possible time. The newspapers of the Union, such as the New York Herald, are genuine powers, and their reporters are men to be reckoned with. Gideon Spilett ranked among the first of those reporters: a man of great merit, energetic, prompt and ready for anything, full of ideas, having traveled over the whole world, soldier and artist, enthusiastic in council, resolute in action, caring neither for trouble, fatigue, nor danger, when in pursuit of information, for himself first, and then for his journal, a perfect treasury of knowledge on all sorts of curious 

PUBLISHED: 1874 / 492 Pages

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1. 1-01 The Storm of 1865. Voices in the Air.
2. 1-02 An Incident in the War of Secession
3. 1-03 Five O’Clock in the Evening
4. 1-04 Lithodomes. The River’s Mouth. The Chimneys.
5. 1-05 Arranging the Chimneys. How to Procure Fire.
6. 1-06 The Inventory of the Castaways. Expedition to the Forest.
7. 1-07 Neb Has Not Yet Returned. A Threatening Night.
8. 1-08 Is Cyrus Harding Living? Neb’s Recital.
9. 1-09 Cyrus is Here. Pencroft’s Attempts.
10. 1-10 The Engineer’s Invention. Volcanic Soil.
11. 1-11 At the Summit of the Cone
12. 1-12 Regulating the Watches. Pencroft is Satisfied.
13. 1-13 What is Found Upon Top
14. 1-14 Measuring the Cliff. Latitude of the Island.
15. 1-15 It Is Decided to Winter on the Island
16. 1-16 The Question of a Dwelling is Again Discussed.
17. 1-17 Visit to the Lake. The Indicating Current.
18. 1-18 Pencroft Now Doubts Nothing
19. 1-19 Cyrus Harding’s Project. The Rope Ladder.
20. 1-20 The Rainy Season. The Question of Clothes.
21. 1-21 Some Degrees Below Zero.
22. 1-22 Traps. Foxes. Peccaries.
23. 2-01 Conversation on the Subject of the Bullet
24. 2-02 First Trial of the Canoe. A Wreck on the Coast.
25. 2-03 The Start. The Rising Tide.
26. 2-04 Journey to the Coast. Troops of Monkeys
27. 2-05 Proposal to Return By the Southern Shore
28. 2-06 Pencroft’s Halloos. A Night in the Chimneys.
29. 2-07 Plans. A Bridge Over the Mercy.
30. 2-08 Linen. Shoes of Seal-Leather.
31. 2-09 Bad Weather. The Hydraulic Lift.
32. 2-10 Boat-Building. Second Crop of Corn.
33. 2-11 Winter. Felling Wood. The Mill.
34. 2-12 The Rigging of the Vessel
35. 2-13 Departure Decided Upon. Conjectures.
36. 2-14 The Inventory. Night. A Few Letters.
37. 2-15 The Return. Discussion.
38. 2-16 A Mystery to be Cleared Up.
39. 2-17 Still Alone. The Stranger’s Request.
40. 2-18 Conversation. Cyrus Harding and Gideon Spilett.
41. 2-19 Recollections of Their Native Land
42. 2-20 A Night at Sea. Shark Gulf. Confidences.
43. 3-01 Lost or Saved? Ayrton Summoned.
44. 3-02 Discussions. Presentiments.
45. 3-03 The Mist Rises. The Engineer’s Preparations.
46. 3-04 The Colonists on the Beach.
47. 3-05 The Engineer’s Declaration.
48. 3-06 Expeditions Planned. Ayrton at the Corral.
49. 3-07 The Reporter and Pencroft in the Corral
50. 3-08 The Convicts in the Neighborhood of the Corral
51. 3-09 No news of Neb. A Proposal.
52. 3-10 Herbert Carried to Granite House
53. 3-11 Inexplicable Mystery. Herbert’s Convalescence.
54. 3-12 Exploration on the Serpentine Peninsula.
55. 3-13 Ayrton’s Story. A Subterranean Volcano.
56. 3-14 Three Years Have Passed. The New Vessel.
57. 3-15 The Awakening of the Volcano. The Fine Season.
58. 3-16 Captain Nemo. His First Words.
59. 3-17 Last Moments of Captain Nemo
60. 3-18 Reflections of the Colonists
61. 3-19 Cyrus Harding’s Account of His Exploration
62. 3-20 An Isolated Rock in the Pacific