The Mysterious Island (Version 2)

LibriVox recording of The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne (1828–1905), translated by William Henry Giles Kingston (1814-1880) and read by LibriVox volunteers. The book tells the adventures of five Americans on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. The story begins in the American Civil War, during the siege of Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America. As famine and death ravage the city, five northern prisoners of war decide to escape by the unusual means of hijacking a balloon. The five are Cyrus Smith, a railroad engineer in the Union army (named Cyrus Hardin