Jules Verne ~15 hr read

Five castaways, blown off course in a runaway balloon, come down on an uncharted Pacific island and build a civilization from nothing, watched over by a hidden benefactor.

Jules Verne's 1874 'The Mysterious Island' is his beloved epic of survival, ingenuity, and a famous secret, in the original French. Grand, resourceful, endlessly satisfying. Read it for one of Verne's greatest adventures, a hymn to human cleverness with a legendary figure lurking behind it.

In its time

Published in 1874, during the 1870s, under the sea and around the moon.

Reading it

~15 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).