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    The Mysterious Island
    The Mysterious Island
    The Mysterious Island
    Audiobook21 hours

    The Mysterious Island

    Written by Jules Verne

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    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)

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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    Jules Verne

    Jules Verne (1828-1905) used a combination of scientific facts and his imagination to take readers on extraordinary imaginative journeys to fantastic places. In such books as Around the World in Eighty Days, From the Earth to the Moon, and Journey to the Center of the Earth, he predicted many technological advances of the twentieth century, including the invention of the automobile, telephone, and nuclear submarines, as well as atomic power and travel to the moon by rocket.

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      One of the best books I have ever listened to by the best narrator I have ever listened to. I shall try to listen to all of Jules Verne’s books hopefully by this narrator. Most books I listen to are not very good and the narrator terrible, irritating impossible to finish their books. Thank you LibraVox in the Public Domain and Scribed. Many of the older classics I don’t like because of the laborious sentence structure Jules Verne tells exciting adventure stories, not soap operas or ruminations of self absorbed , immoral cads with terrible characters and acts. The people in this adventure were likeable. I loved spending time with decent people, good people. So wonderful compared to today’s selfish characters!! Thank you Jules Verne and libravox! Hurrah!!