The Mysterious Island (French: L'Mile mysterious) is a unique by Jules Verne, released in 1875. The original edition, released by Tetzel, includes a number of pictures by Jules Feat. The story is a crossover follow up to Verne's well-known Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870) as well as Trying To Find the Castaways (1867-- 68), though its themes are greatly different from those books. An early draft of the novel, at first turned down by Verne's publisher and also entirely preconceived before publication, was labelled Shipwrecked Household: Marooned with Uncle Robinson, viewed as indicating the influence of the novels Robinson Crusoe and The Swiss Family Members Robinson. Verne developed a comparable theme in his later book, Godfrey Morgan (French: L'Cole DES Robinson's, 1882). The chronology of The Strange Island is totally incompatible with that of the initial Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, whose story begins in 1866, while The Strange Island beg...