Jules Verne ~11 hr read

'Are we rising? No, we are falling!' Five men and a dog, escaping a Civil War siege by balloon, are hurled by a storm onto an uncharted Pacific island, and must build a world from nothing.

Jules Verne's 1874 novel is a beloved classic of survival and scientific adventure. Rousing, ingenious, endlessly inventive. Read it for one of Verne's greatest, castaways rebuilding civilization by wit and knowledge on a wild island, and the deep mystery of the unseen benefactor who watches over them.

In its time

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

Reading it

~11 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).