It surpassed in disasters those which so frightfully ravaged Havana and Guadalupe, one on the 25th of October, 1810, the other on the 26th of July, 1825. Towns were overthrown, forests uprooted, coasts devastated by the mountains of water which were precipitated on them, vessels cast on the shore, which the published accounts numbered by hundreds, whole districts leveled by waterspouts which destroyed everything they passed over, several thousand people crushed on land or drowned at sea such were the traces of its fury, left by this devastating tempest. This is an unusual book for Verne because it's more mystery than science fiction. The novel was written by Jules Verne in 1874. My recent foray into the oeuvre of Jules Verne has been enlightening in a number of ways. The Mysterious Island is an exciting tale of mystery and adventure as a group of castaways struggle to overcome the elements and survive on an uncharted island. Its ravages were terrible in America, Europe, and Asia, covering a distance of eighteen hundred miles, and extending obliquely to the equator from the thirty-fifth north parallel to the fortieth south parallel. Book Review: The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne. The tempest raged without intermission from the 18th to the 26th of March. Mysterious Island: Book 1 - Lemuria (The Mysterious Island) Paperback Jby Greig Beck (Author) 2,180 ratings Book 1 of 2: The Mysterious Island See all formats and editions Kindle 0.00 Read with Kindle Unlimited to also enjoy access to over 3 million more titles 7.99 to buy Audiobook 0. No stable link: This is an uncurated book entry from our extended bookshelves, readable online now but without a stable link here.

Such were the loud and startling words which resounded through the air, above the vast watery desert of the Pacific, about four o'clock in the evening of the 23rd of March, 1865.įew can possibly have forgotten the terrible storm from the northeast, in the middle of the equinox of that year.

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