Propeller Island

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Propeller Island
Author Jules Verne
Original title L'Île à hélice
Translator W.J. Gordon
Illustrator Léon Benett
Country France
Language French
Series Voyages Extraordinaires #41
Genre(s) Adventure novel
Publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel
Publication date 1895
Published in
English
1896
Media type Print

Propeller Island (French: L'Île à hélice) (also published as The Floating Island, or The Pearl of the Pacific) is a science fiction novel by French author Jules Verne (18281905). It was first published in 1895 as part of the Voyages Extraordinaires. It relates the adventures of a French string quartet in Milliard City, a city on a massive ship in the Pacific Ocean, inhabited entirely by millionaires.