The proud Terangi makes a final, desperate attempt to escape from unjust imprisonment. As the authorities draw closer, nature intervenes. The skies blacken, the tides rise, the wind snaps through the palm trees and the South Sea island of Manukura is battered by a howling hurricane.
Having been born in the seafaring town of Salem, Massachusetts, I, Ben Lathrop, had as my life's ambition the desire to ship before the mast. I was a lad of sixteen when in the year 1809, my took me to see his good friend, Captain Joseph Whidden, the master of a ship called The Island Princess.
Twin brothers ... joined together by a bond that nothing on earth or beyond could sever ... the bond of mental telepathy ... such is the story of Julien and Louis de Franchi born in 1819 on the beautiful, but wild island of Corsica.
In The Mysterious Island a group of men escape imprisonment during the American Civil War by stealing a balloon. Blown across the world, they are air-wrecked on a remote desert island.
