Jules Verne / Jules Férat - L'Île mystérieuse - 1875

Stunning illustrated edition of this adventure and survival novel, part of the series of Extraordinary Voyages. The story begins during the Civil War, when five Union prisoners escape by balloon and crash on a deserted island in the Pacific.

The protagonists — engineer Cyrus Smith, sailor Pencroff, journalist Gédéon Spilett, young Harbert, and faithful dog Top — organize their existence by recreating, through Smith's scientific and technical knowledge, the conditions of a modern civilization: making tools, domesticating nature, exploiting mineral and plant resources.

The island, rich in mysteries and dangers, becomes the setting for natural trials (storms, eruptions, animal attacks) and surprising discoveries, gradually revealing the presence of an invisible protector -

This secret benefactor turns out to be Captain Nemo, retired in his submarine Nautilus, embodying the continuity with Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and giving the story a philosophical depth on science, solitude, and human destiny.

Jules Férat's illustrations enhance the visual and educational aspect, bringing landscapes, inventions, and adventures to life.

Jules Verne / Jules Férat - The Mysterious Island - 1875 - Hetzel & Cie -

Good condition of the binding, volume in its half Bordeaux edition leather, with signs of use, rubbed spine caps, corners, and edges, gilded edges, spine with decorative nerves, titled and author's name gilded, cold stamped borders framing the covers.

Good interior condition, scattered foxing, work enriched with 134 drawings by Férat, marbled endpapers.

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