The Mysterious Island
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This is Jules Verne’s attempt at writing a Robinson Crusoe / Swiss Family tree Robinson castaway tale, with the twist that the five castaways crash-land a balloon and thus come to the island with nearly nothing — unlike Crusoe or the Swiss Family tree, the castaways here don’t have a boat-full of resources, tools, etc., to fall back on, and have to make *everything* themselves, from the ground up, armed only with their knowledge of science and engineering. Since it permanently seemed to me that Crusoe and the Swiss Family tree cheated a bit by bringing so many tools and so into the world along with themselves, I really loved the more scientific focus, and this has now replaced Swiss Family tree as my answer to the “what one book would you want with you on a desert island?” question.
Parts of the novel drag a bit, but it’s a Jules Verne novel so there’s a excellent tale here — the Island has a mysterious unseen inhabitant, also, there are pirates, which is permanently awesome.
This translation is also the better of the two available for free in the Kindle store — unlike the Kingston translation, this one (I judge based on the 1875 White translation) preserves Verne’s character names, cuts less of Verne’s text, and retains Captain Nemo’s anti-English and anti-imperialist speechifying, regularly cut from additional period translations.
Oh, yeah, Captain Nemo. This book is in some ways a sequel to Verne’s _Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas_, as well as to his _In Search of the Castaways_. The sequence isn’t direct — really more a case of cameo characters than a direct plot sequel to either book — but you might want to read persons two books first before alternative this one up.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
I very much loved this Jules Verne book. It kept my interest most of the time. I did reflect that some of the descriptions of the castaways’ creations were lengthy. I also thought that a lot of what he wrote, he had never really veteran any of these things, so was a bit naive. But this book certainly makes one reflect what they would do in such circumstances.
Reader’s Rating: 4 / 5