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The Mysterious Island

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The Mysterious Island

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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. "Wide-eyed mid-nineteenth-century humanistic optimism in a breezy, blissfully readable translation by Stump" (Kirkus Reviews), here is the enthralling tale of five men and a dog who land in a balloon on a faraway, fantastic island of bewildering goings-on and their struggle to survive as they uncover the island's secret.

Author Biography:

Jordan Stump is an associate professor of French at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and translator of more than half a dozen French novels. His translation of Nobel Prize-winning novelist Claude Simon's Le jardin des plantes won the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for 2001. Caleb Carr is the bestselling author of The Alienist and, most recently, The Lessons of Terror. He lives in New York.
Release date NZ
April 27th, 2004
Author
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Contributors
  • Introduction by Caleb Carr
  • Translated by Jordan Stump
Country of Publication
United States
Illustrations
75 b&w illustrations
Imprint
Random House Inc
Pages
768
Publisher
Random House USA Inc
Dimensions
109x175x33
ISBN-13
9780812972122
Product ID
11772191

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