{"id":906,"date":"2014-09-07T10:59:00","date_gmt":"2014-09-07T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/?download=1059"},"modified":"2017-08-22T09:42:35","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T09:42:35","slug":"1059","status":"publish","type":"download","link":"https:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/?download=1059","title":{"rendered":"The Mysterious Island by Jules Verne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<img decoding=\"async\" align=\"bottom\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gsolutionsebooks.org\/images\/mysterious.jpg\" \/>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<strong>Jules Verne&#39;s Last Story<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font face=\"BookmanOldStyle\"><strong><font color=\"#000099\" size=\"3\">Doubtless, no one has forgotten that terrible northeast gale which <\/font><\/strong><strong><font color=\"#000099\" size=\"3\">vented its fury during the equinox of that year. It was a hurricane lasting <\/font><\/strong><strong><font color=\"#000099\" size=\"3\">without intermission from the 18th to the 26th of March.<\/font><\/strong><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family: Impact; color: rgb(0, 0, 153);\"><font face=\"Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\" size=\"5\"><strong><!--more--><\/strong><\/font><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font face=\"BookmanOldStyle\"><strong><font color=\"#000099\" size=\"3\">Covering a <\/font><\/strong><strong><font color=\"#000099\" size=\"3\">space of 1,800 miles, drawn obliquely to the equator, between the 35&deg; of <\/font><\/strong><strong><font color=\"#000099\" size=\"3\">north latitude and 40&deg; south, it occasioned immense destruction both in <\/font><\/strong><strong><font color=\"#000099\" size=\"3\">America and Europe and Asia. Cities in ruins, forests uprooted, shores <\/font><\/strong><strong><font color=\"#000099\" size=\"3\">devastated by the mountains of water hurled upon them, hundreds of <\/font><\/strong><strong><font color=\"#000099\" size=\"3\">shipwrecks, large tracts of territory desolated by the waterspouts which <\/font><\/strong><strong><font color=\"#000099\" size=\"3\">destroyed everything in their path, thousands of persons crushed to the <\/font><\/strong><strong><font color=\"#000099\" size=\"3\">earth or engulfed in the sea; such were the witnesses to its fury left <\/font><\/strong><strong><font color=\"#000099\" size=\"3\">behind by this terrible hurricane.<\/font><\/strong><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font face=\"BookmanOldStyle\"><strong><font color=\"#000099\" size=\"3\">It surpassed in disaster those storms <\/font><\/strong><strong><font color=\"#000099\" size=\"3\">which ravaged Havana and Guadeloupe in 1810 and 1825.<\/font><\/strong><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font face=\"BookmanOldStyle\"><strong><font color=\"#000099\" size=\"3\">While these catastrophes were taking place upon the land and the sea, <\/font><\/strong><strong><font color=\"#000099\" size=\"3\">a scene not less thrilling was enacting in the disordered heavens.<\/font><\/strong><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font face=\"BookmanOldStyle\"><strong><font color=\"#000099\" size=\"3\">A balloon, caught in the whirl of a column of air, borne like a ball on <\/font><\/strong><strong><font color=\"#000099\" size=\"3\">the summit of a waterspout, spinning around as in some aerial <\/font><\/strong><strong><font color=\"#000099\" size=\"3\">whirlpool, rushed through space with a velocity of ninety miles an hour.<\/font><\/strong><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font face=\"BookmanOldStyle\"><strong><font color=\"#000099\" size=\"3\">Below the balloon, dimly visible through the dense vapor, mingled with <\/font><\/strong><strong><font color=\"#000099\" size=\"3\">spray, which spread over the ocean, swung a basket containing five <\/font><\/strong><strong><font color=\"#000099\" size=\"3\">persons&#8230;..<\/font><\/strong><\/font>\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t<font face=\"BookmanOldStyle\"><strong><font color=\"#ff0000\" size=\"4\">Get this&nbsp;sci-fi adventure in PDF format for just $1.00!<\/font><\/strong><\/font><br \/>\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t&nbsp;\n<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jules Verne&#39;s Last Story Doubtless, no one has forgotten that terrible northeast gale which vented its fury during the equinox of that year. 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