Project Gutenberg 2010-08-23 Public domain in the USA. 167 Verne, Jules 1828 1905 Verne, Júlio Verne, Jules Gabriël Verne, Jules Gabriel Verne, Gyula Kingston, William Henry Giles 1814 1880 Kingston, W. H. G. Kingston, W.H.G. Abandoned Reading ease score: 67.5 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Produced by Hemant Garach, David Starner and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "Abandoned" by Jules Verne is a novel written in the late 19th century. This engaging tale is set in the context of adventure and survival, focusing on a group of castaways stranded on Lincoln Island after a balloon accident. Central characters such as Cyrus Harding, Neb, Herbert, and Pencroft navigate their isolation while discovering signs of previous human presence on the island, igniting their curiosity and caution. The opening of "Abandoned" introduces readers to the settlers seven months after their unexpected arrival on Lincoln Island. They discover a bullet found inside a rodent, leading to a captivating discussion about the possibility of other humans being on the island. Intrigued and anxious, they decide to build a canoe for exploration. Concurrently, a turtle they try to capture mysteriously disappears, further deepening the mystery surrounding the island’s past. As they prepare for their canoe trip, the settlers reflect on their own survival and the potential dangers from whatever other inhabitants might still be lurking nearby. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Science fiction Castaways -- Fiction Islands of the Pacific -- Fiction PQ Text Browsing: Science-Fiction & Fantasy Browsing: Travel & Geography Browsing: Fiction 478981 478980 2024-10-14T08:09:46.143240 2023-09-14T12:15:38.130720 text/html text/html 477658 2010-08-23T08:38:14 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 8741621 2010-08-23T08:38:22 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 8918142 2024-10-14T08:10:03.146660 application/epub+zip 8881948 2024-10-14T08:09:49.275232 application/epub+zip 249597 2024-10-14T08:09:47.211217 application/epub+zip 9028656 2024-10-14T08:10:13.287604 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 8953649 2024-10-14T08:09:58.418180 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 362012 2022-09-15T10:19:11.294252 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 422809 422709 2024-10-14T08:09:44.384227 2023-09-14T12:15:36.673202 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 422683 2010-08-23T08:38:14 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 152638 2010-08-23T08:38:22 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 422726 2010-08-23T08:38:14 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 152580 2010-08-23T08:38:22 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 23325 2024-10-14T08:10:13.585578 application/rdf+xml 11164 2024-10-14T08:09:47.813196 image/jpeg 3048 2024-10-14T08:09:47.511200 image/jpeg 8813099 2024-10-14T08:09:46.346258 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog en.wikipedia fr.wikipedia pt.wikipedia en.wikipedia