About this book
This sequel to "20,000 Leagues Under The Sea" doesn't advertise itself as such. Most of the book concerns the efforts of a group of hot-air balloon castaways in the south Pacific ocean attempting to use modern knowledge in order to survive in near-desert-island conditions. "Robinson Crusoe" (Defoe, 1719) started a trend of survival tales that lasts in some respects to this day and "Island" (1874) is Verne's contribution to that body of work. In my estimate, no film so far has done this book justice.
Voyages Extraordinaires · 60 books
In publication order- 11 Around the World in Eighty Days 1872
- 12 The Mysterious Island 1888 This book
- 13 The Survivors of the Chancellor 1875
- 14 Michael Strogoff 1876
Subjects
- adventure and adventurers
- adventure and adventurers, fiction
- adventure stories
- aventures
- balloons
- castaways
- castaways -- fiction
- children's fiction
- critique et intérprétation
- fiction
- fiction, action & adventure
- fiction -- classics
- fiction, fantasy, general
- fiction, science fiction, general
- fiction, suspense
- french adventure stories
- french fiction
- french language materials
- french science fiction
- island life
- island life -- fiction
- islands
- islands of the pacific -- fiction
- littérature française
- long now manual for civilization
- open library staff picks
- popular print disabled books
- romance literature
- roman français
- romans
- science fiction
- shipwrecks
- survival
- survival -- fiction
- translations from french
- translations into english