Durin_g'> the=! U!\S Civil Wa&%r,(@ Unio$n-@< POWs$ escape in a ball,oon and*? en_(d up strande-d on ?&a %
S?'outh Pacific: islan?\)d,  in$=`!.habit%=ed &by giant plants and animals #. (They mu\][st us+*@e thei\r ingenu^it-#y, to ,survive the dange`rs, and to devise a way t]o r;eturn home. Sequel( to '20,000?? L@"eagues, Under the Sea`[^' . Written by St`*ewart M. Cla<@>men ;　　In 1865, during t+.) he siege o!*f Richmond, <(Virgi-`+_ni>a, the u
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ain H\?arding, Neb ()a\[-nd Herbe?[+rt e//scape i'\n- a bal]l.)oon d ='u`ring[ a&^^ stor$_m with , two con%:%fe<)derate prisoners\(":, Sergeant P@!encro$._%ft and =th<+e jou>rn*!alist Spi [let+)t. The; u;ncontrollable` wind takes the b=_alloon to a_] @ myste!'rious#! !# i^&sland in the South =;;Paci^[fic 
>in the area of New Zeal*%and. Captain Hard!&ing s?e]l'+f-proclaims%& the. leade-=?r o["[f the group and t%hey l:.^ook fo% r(; fo"'\od; soo,"ner they discov@-er that >*:they are stranded in an island. Fu $;rt= ?h"er, t$.&\h ( ey are attacke&#&,d by a giant crab t.=hat become?]&s  their first meal. $.Al*>ong the days, they _-_ bui(#ld? a sh' :el>[ter and finds t"$?hat the island=_ is inhabite;$.d b
y giant "*anima*ls%` . A 'couple"? of ]_d%ays/# later, th ey find t$wo
castaways on the be(> ac h, the aris,"tocra'.tic
$[Lady Mary<: Fa,irc/hild an`d he]_ r sexy ni&&_=ece Ele\ ![na. ^--Later they `fi&(nd-&= a trunk:^ wit/;h weapons and =ins:truments $>like sextan";\t and shelter with a j<ournal`+ of a man`@,? !=+lef<,t alone in"
+^es<) in the island(, they are he!l\ '"&ped (
by Captain Nemo of ?the Nau ?tilu[&)s, a sub%[`=.ma ."r"=ine
-- that had supposed(ly sunk '-i?n th  e coast of & ;/Mexico e`ight years a\ ?)g/":o,-. Nemo \is f!a!+mous as >.the man that tried ;"/to end strike amon?*g man. Wh=_(en the&!- volcano &!be*gin*)s activity, ,`th(ey need t?#o leave the] :i.sland to save__<=+ their lives.  =Written by Claudi[ arval$ho, Rio d$e Janei_ro, Braz +il