Mysterious Island - Shipwrecked In The Air

Mysterious Island - Shipwrecked in the Air

by Jules Verne

In the final months of the American Civil War, five Northern prisoners devise a daring plan to escape from the Confederate capital of Richmond using a hot air balloon. However, their journey takes an unexpected turn when a powerful storm blows them thousands of miles off course, leaving them stranded on a mysterious and uncharted island.

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Verne is considered to be an important author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation was markedly different in an...

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