Adrift in the Pacific - Two Years Holiday (The Extraordinary Voyages #32) - Deux ans de vacances

Júlio Verne

Fredonia Books

2003

300 páginas

10h 0m

ISBN-10: 1410102157

A group of boys find themselves adrift at sea, and after a terrible storm they are cast upon a deserted island, where they must learn to get along together to survive... / [ASIN: B01F2C0VJU ]

"Adrift In the Pacific, or Two Years Vacation" is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1888.
[A.K.A.] Known also has "The Strange Adventures of a Schoolboy Crew; Long Vacation; Second Year Ashore".

The two original volumes in one single book. Includes 91 original Illustrations by Léon Benett. On the evening of February, 15, 1860, sixteen school boys, ages 8 to 14, were asleep on board a schooner moored at a harbor in Aukland waiting to circumnavigate New Zealand on a six weeks’ vacation. The crew was on shore celebrating on the night before the departure.

Accidentally or purposely, the moorings got cast off without anyone on board being the wiser and the schooner drifted out to sea with only the boys on board. Twenty two days later they are cast on the shore of an unknown island. And so begins another Verne robinsonade with boys always fighting among themselves. They are finally rescued two years later by some good people pursued by pirates who are subdued with the aid of the boys.

Jules Verne was a French writer; born in Nantes, February 8, 1828. He was educated in his native town; studied law in Paris, where he devoted much attention to dramatic literature. His comedy, Les Pailles Rompues, was performed at the Gymnase in 1850, and Onze Tours de Liege followed. His fame rests upon his scientific romances, which have a touch of extravagance in their treatment. His works, which are widely read, have been translated into English.Among his works are: Five Weeks in a Balloon (1870); A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1872); Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1873); Meridiana, the Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa (1873); From the Earth to the Moon Direct in Ninety-seven Hours, Twenty Minutes, and a Trip Round It (1873); The Fur Country, or Seventy Degrees North Latitude (1874); Around the World in Eighty Days (1874); A Floating City and The Blockade Runners (1874); The English at the North Pole (1874); Dr. Ox's Experiment (1874); A Winter Amid the Ice (1875); The Mysterious Island (1875); The Survivors of the "Chancellor" (1875); Michael Strogoff, the Courier of the Czar (1876); The Child of the Cavern (1877); Hector Servadac, or the Career of a Comet (1877); Dick Sands, the Boy Captain (1878); Le Rayon Vert (1882); Kera-ban-le-teta (1883); L?Etoile du Sud (1884); Le Plays de Diamants (1884); Le Chemin de France (1887); Deux Ans de Vaccances (1888); Famille Sans Nom (1889); Caesar Cascabel (1890); Mathias Sautlorf (1890); Nord Contre Sud (1890); The Purchase of the North Pole (1890); Claudius Bombamac (1892); A Castle in the Carpathians (1892).
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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Two_Years'_Vacation
https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deux_Ans_de_vacances
https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voyages_extraordinaires
https://fr.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinsonnade
Jules Verne :
L'Île mystérieuse, 1874 - 1875 ;
L'École des Robinsons, 1882 ;
Deux ans de vacances, 1888 ;
Seconde Patrie, 1900 (suite du Robinson suisse de Johann David Wyss) ;
L'Oncle Robinson, 1991 (publiée à titre posthume, écrite vers 1869 - 1870).