The Mysterious Island

An 1875 adventure novel by Jules Verne in which five men and a dog, cast adrift in a balloon over the Pacific during a violent storm, abandon their car and escape toward a mysterious island after a desperate descent.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

Topic

Historical and Classical Fiction›Classic adventure and the sea›Castaways and desert islands›Shipwreck and survival adventures

Reader

Young readers›Adventure and the sea›Castaways and desert islands