The present romance, the second in the Mysterious Island triad, was originally issued in Paris with the title of L’Abandonné. Jules Verne’s list of stories already ran then to some twenty volumes—a number which has since grown to almost Dumasien proportions. L’Abandonné, like its two companion tales, ran its course as a serial through the Magasin Illustré of education and recreation, before its issue as a boy’s story-book. Its success in both forms seems to have established a record in the race for popularity and a circulation in both the French and English fields of current literature. The present book was translated into English by the late W. H. G. Kingston
Abandoned
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would it not be a good plan, before setting out, to build a canoe in which we could either ascend the river, or, if we liked, coast round the island? It will not do to be unprovided.”
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