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. Published in French as “L'Île Mystérieuse” in 1874, this novel is a sequel to Verne's earlier “Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas”. After hijacking a balloon from a Confederate camp, a band of five northern prisoners escape the American Civil War. Seven thousand miles later, they drop from the clouds onto an uncharted volcanic island in the Pacific. Many secrets and adventures await the group as they endeavor to discover the mystery of this Mysterious Island.
