TY - BOOK AU - Verne,Jules AU - Kingston,Agnes Kinloch TI - Abandoned T2 - Everyman's library, [no. 368] AV - PQ PY - 2010/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Science fiction KW - Castaways -- Fiction KW - Islands of the Pacific -- Fiction N1 - Translation attributed to W. H. G. Kingston, but actually by his wife, Agnes Kinloch Kingston; Translation of: L'abandonné, the second part of L'île mystérieuse; Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mysterious_Island; Release date is 2010-08-23; Produced by Hemant Garach, David Starner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Abandoned" by Jules Verne is a novel serialized from August 1874 to September 1875. Five Union prisoners escape the American Civil War in a stolen balloon, only to crash on an uncharted volcanic island in the Pacific. Using ingenuity and engineering skills, they transform from castaways into colonists. But mysterious events suggest an unseen guardian watches over them. When pirates threaten their new home and secrets emerge from the island's depths, the survivors discover their refuge harbors an extraordinary connection to a legendary figure from the sea. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/33516 ER -