Propeller Island
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Propeller Island | |
Author | Jules Verne |
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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 |
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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 (1828–1905). 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.