In the canon
The Mysterious Island
- Form
- Form Novel
- Year
- Year 1874
- Originally in
- Originally in French
- Pages
- Pages 600
Five men escape the American Civil War by balloon and land on an empty Pacific island, where an engineer builds a civilisation out of rock and sand. Their hidden helper turns out to be a dying sea captain, and the island explodes.
It is, that we do not consider ourselves castaways, but colonists, who have come here to settle.
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