Based on the true story of Alexander Selkirk, who survived alone for almost five
years on an uninhabited island off the coast of Chile, "The Mysterious Island"
is considered by many to be Jules Verne's masterpiece. "Wide-eyed mid-nineteenth
-century humanistic optimism in a breezy, blissfully readable translation by Stu
mp" ("Kirkus Reviews"), here is the enthralling tale of five men and a dog who l
and in a balloon on a faraway, fantastic island of bewildering goings-on and the
ir struggle to survive as they uncover the island's secret.
