Mysterious Island (ePub)

The Mysterious Island is the third one of the Verne's famous trilogy Captain Grant's Children, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island. In this book, he tells a story: During the American Civil War, there were five northerners besieged in the city of Confederate Army and they escaped flying on a balloon by accident. But they get caught in a storm in the halfway and landed on a desert island in the Pacific Ocean. These five men did not feel depressed, on the contrary, they united together, overcame many difficulties by virtue of their wisdom and settled down on this desert island. They made pottery, glass, ventilating millstone and telegraph and others with their own hands, they were able to supply themselves and had adequate food and clothes. They still saved the criminals who were sent by Captain Grant on another desert island, restore their human natures and made them become the faithful companions. On the desert island, they were secretly protected by the captain Nemo in the book of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and they passed through many dangerous crises safely. Finally, they boarded Duncan-commanded by the son of the captain Robert-Robert A* Grant and went back to their motherland that they had missed all the time.