| The Mysterious Island Contributor(s): Kingston, Agnes Kinloch (Translator), Verne, Jules (Author) |
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ISBN: 1547051698 ISBN-13: 9781547051694 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $25.55 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2017 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Science Fiction - Action & Adventure |
| Lexile Measure: 510 |
| Physical Information: 0.99" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (1.43 lbs) 490 pages |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 122822 Reading Level: 3.5 Interest Level: Middle Grades Point Value: 1.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "Are we rising again?" "No. On the contrary." "Are we descending?" "Worse than that, captain we are falling " "For Heaven's sake heave out the ballast " "There the last sack is empty " "Does the balloon rise?" "No " "I hear a noise like the dashing of waves. The sea is below the car It cannot be more than 500 feet from us " "Overboard with every weight ... everything " Such were the loud and startling words which resounded through the air, above the vast watery desert of the Pacific, about four o'clock in the evening of the 23rd of March, 1865. Few can possibly have forgotten the terrible storm from the northeast, in the middle of the equinox of that year. The tempest raged without intermission from the 18th to the 26th of March. Its ravages were terrible in America, Europe, and Asia, covering a distance of eighteen hundred miles, and extending obliquely to the equator from the thirty-fifth north parallel to the fortieth south parallel. Towns were overthrown, forests uprooted, coasts devastated by the mountains of water which were precipitated on them, vessels cast on the shore, which the published accounts numbered by hundreds, whole districts leveled by waterspouts which destroyed everything they passed over, several thousand people crushed on land or drowned at sea; such were the traces of its fury, left by this devastating tempest. It surpassed in disasters those which so frightfully ravaged Havana and Guadalupe, one on the 25th of October, 1810, the other on the 26th of July, 1825. |