Through the use of the engineers vast knowledge, their wits, courage and the occasional help of an unknown force, the men begin to turn this island into their new home. But buried in the center of one smaller iceberg is a shard of ancient Viking pottery telling a partial tale of a hidden mysterious island beyond the ice and mist, that was home to a great treasure and even greater horrors.
It surpassed in disasters those which so frightfully ravaged Havana and Guadalupe, one on the 25th of October, 1810, the other on the 26th of July, 1825. The engineer and his dog are found under mysterious circumstances, but it is just the first of the islands many mysteries. On a desolate beach in far northern Scotland, the winter storms have been washing up all manner of things since time began. Towns were overthrown, forests uprooted, coasts devastated by the mountains of water which were precipitated on them, vessels cast on the shore, which the published accounts numbered by hundreds, whole districts leveled by waterspouts which destroyed everything they passed over, several thousand people crushed on land or drowned at sea such were the traces of its fury, left by this devastating tempest. Its ravages were terrible in America, Europe, and Asia, covering a distance of eighteen hundred miles, and extending obliquely to the equator from the thirty-fifth north parallel to the fortieth south parallel. Science Fiction series is Sidney Kravitzs translation (14 years in the making) of Jules Vernes castaway epic, The Mysterious Island. The original edition, published by Hetzel, contains a number of illustrations by Jules Frat.
The tempest raged without intermission from the 18th to the 26th of March. The last words in his note-book were these: A Southern rifleman has just taken aim at me, but The Southerner notwithstanding missed Gideon Spilett, who, with. The Mysterious Island ( French: L'le mystrieuse) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1875. A mysterious benefactor helps the stranded men survive.Such were the loud and startling words which resounded through the air, above the vast watery desert of the Pacific, about four o'clock in the evening of the 23rd of March, 1865.įew can possibly have forgotten the terrible storm from the northeast, in the middle of the equinox of that year. Five men and a dog are carried out to sea in a balloon and dropped from the clouds onto an isolated sland.
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