![]() The book arrives in a green slipcase of fairly sturdy construction bearing a simple title label on its spine. ![]() Would Verne really entertain a divine intervention? Or is there more than meets the eye to The Mysterious Island? Here I’ll be taking a look at the 1959 Limited Editions Club version of this classic of science-adventure. But while the island’s wild nature is quickly tamed through trademark Victorian industry and ingenuity, a series of seemingly supernatural events befall our castaways. Fortunately, they are protagonists in a Jules Verne novel and when they identify among their number a man of science with a thirst for adventure it seems only a matter of time before they set-up island-wide 5G coverage. This 1865 entry in the Voyages Extraordinaires series sees a group of escaped prisoners of war stranded on a remote Pacific island with nothing but their wits to survive on. ![]()
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