Mysterious Island - Shipwrecked in the Air
Author: first_name: Jules
last_name: Verne
Language: English
Year: 1876

In the final months of the American Civil War five Northerners find themselves trapped in the Southern capital of Richmond. They conceive of a plan to escape with a balloon kept nearby.
However, not all goes as planned and as a powerful gale surprises them, their balloon veers off course by some thousands of miles and the five find themselves fighting desperately for their survival... (plot summary by Piotr Nater)<br /><br />

The present translation is by the American Stephen W. White. It first