Review: A great classic tale
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 12 11, 2013
An ill fated escape by balloon ended up being a disaster depositing 5 men and a dog on a seemingly deserted island.  Where they worked to start a colony of sorts and where they experienced many hardships and triumphs.  A classic story filled with well defined characters and interesting locale.  The one downfall was it was somewhat wordy and of course some of the explanations of the scientific kind were outdated.  But those small complaints does nothing to diminish the quality of the tale itself.