The Mysterious Island

Jules Verne — a remarkable writer, creator of science fiction novels, one of the most read French authors in the world. Since childhood, we have been accompanied by his extraordinary works: «Around the World in Eighty Days», «Captain Fifteen Years... Old», «The Children of Captain Grant», «Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea». This edition features one of Jules Verne's best novels «The Mysterious Island». The adventurous plot intertwines a storm, a volcanic eruption, pirate attacks, and of course, a story of survival on a patch of land in the middle of the ocean. Resourceful heroes, cast ashore by a hurricane on a deserted island, make sugar and smelt steel, produce bricks, wool, glass, sulfuric and nitric acid, nitroglycerin, and dynamite, construct a telegraph and a spinning machine. «The Mysterious Island» — a thrilling story of the islanders' adventures, a «survival manual», a hymn to human courage and willpower. Thanks to the magnificent illustrations by Czech artist Zdeněk Burian (1905–1981), readers can fully experience the incredible adventures with the heroes of the novel, make astonishing discoveries, and feel the joy of triumph over nature.