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The year is 1866; the American Civil War is at its height. Five prisoners of war hatch an audacious plan to escape their camp by balloon. After a perilous 6,000-mile journey in a fierce storm, they are “shipwrecked” on an unknown Pacific island. What follows is a thrilling tale of resourcefulness, courage, and suspense. Together with our heroes we learn to hunt, to make weapons and pottery, to calculate our position by the sun, to extract iron, and even to make explosives from the island’s remarkable natural resources. As in all Verne’s novels, the plot is packed with unexpected and tantalizing mysteries—above all, who is the invisible benefactor who repeatedly saves our heroes from certain death?
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The year is 1866; the American Civil War is at its height. Five prisoners of war hatch an audacious plan to escape their camp by balloon.
After a perilous 6,000-mile journey in a fierce storm, they are “shipwrecked” on an unknown Pacific island. What follows is a thrilling tale of resourcefulness, courage, and suspense. Together with our heroes we learn to hunt, to make weapons and pottery, to calculate our position by the sun, to extract iron, and even to make explosives from the island’s remarkable natural resources.
As in all Verne’s novels, the plot is packed with unexpected and tantalizing mysteries—above all, who is the invisible benefactor who repeatedly saves our heroes from certain death?
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Author Bio: Jules Verne
Jules Verne (1828–1905) is considered by many the father of science fiction. Born in Nantes, France, he studied law but turned to writing opera libretti until the 1863 publication of Five Weeks in a Balloon, the first of his Extraordinary Voyages series. Its success encouraged him to produce a number of classic and prophetic science fiction novels, including Journey to the Center of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea. His stories foresaw many scientific and technological developments, including the submarine, television, and space travel.
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| Available Formats : | CD, MP3 CD |
| Category: | Fiction/Fantasy |
| Runtime: | 19.73 |
| Audience: | Adult |
| Language: | English |
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