神秘岛（中文导读英文版）
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作者： （法）凡尔纳（Verne，J.） 原著，王勋，纪飞 等编译
出 版 社： 清华大学出版社
出版时间： 2009-1-1字数：版次： 1页数： 626印刷时间：开本： 16开印次：纸张：I S B N ： 9787302190158包装： 平装内容简介
ThP Mysterious Island，中文译名《神秘岛》，这是一部充满传奇、冒险与幻想的科幻巨著，是法国著名作家、“现代科幻小说之父”儒勒凡尔纳的代表作之一。美国南北战争期间，五名北方军俘虏乘坐气球，从南方军大本营里士满出逃。途中遭遇风暴，被抛到南太平洋一个荒无人烟的小岛上。他们并没有绝望，而是团结一致，用智慧和毅力克服了重重困难，自己动手制造了生产工具和生活用具。他们不仅顽强地生存了下来，而且还把小岛建设成一个繁荣富庶的乐园，后来还搭救了被遗弃在另一个荒岛上独居了十二年的“野人”。在他们遭遇危难的时刻，总有一个神秘人在暗中帮助他们。最后，火山爆发，荒岛遭到灭顶之灾，他们被抛到荒岛仅存的一块礁石上侥幸逃命。生死存亡关头，格兰特船长的儿子指挥的“邓肯号”搭救了他们，使他们重返祖国。整部小说情节跌宕起伏，充满了对奇异多姿的自然界的描写，并且把各种知识融会到惊心动魄的故事之中。
该书一经出版，很快就成为当时最受关注和最畅销的科幻作品，至今已被译成世界上多种文字，曾经先后多次被改编成电影。书中所展现的神奇故事伴随了一代又一代人的美丽童年、少年直至成年。无论作为语言学习的课本，还是作为通俗的文学读本，本书对当代中国的青少年都将产生积极的影响。为了使读者能够了解英文故事概况，进而提高阅读速度和阅读水平，在每章的开始部分增加了中文导读。
目录
上部/First Period
第一章/Chapter 12
第二章/Chapter 29
第三章/Chapter 320
第四章/Chapter 428
第五章/Chapter 537
第六章/Chapter 645
第七章/Chapter 754
第八章/Chapter 864
第九章/Chapter 974
第十章/Chapter 1085
第十一章/Chapter 1195
第十二章/Chapter 12106
第十三章/Chapter 13116
第十四章/Chapter 14127
第十五章/Chapter 15137
第十六章/Chapter 16147
第十七章/Chapter 17156
第十八章/Chapter 18166
第十九章/Chapter 19175
第二十章/Chapter 20184
第二十一章/Chapter 21192
第二十二章/Chapter 22202
第二十三章/Chapter 23214
第二十四章/Chapter 24223
第二十五章/Chapter 25233
第二十六章/Chapter 26243
第二十七章/Chapter 27252
第二十八章/Chapter 28264
第二十九章/Chapter 29274
第三十章/Chapter 30284
第三十一章/Chapter 31293
第三十二章/Chapter 32302
第三十三章/Chapter 33311
下部/Second Period
第三十四章/Chapter 34324
第三十五章/Chapter 35337
第三十六章/Chapter 36347
第三十七章/Chapter 37358
第三十八章/Chapter 38367
第三十九章/Chapter 39379
第四十章/Chapter 40391
第四十一章/Chapter 41401
第四十二章/Chapter 42411
第四十三章/Chapter 43423
第四十四章/Chapter 44434
第四十五章/Chapter 45444
第四十六章/Chapter 46456
第四十七章/Chapter 47467
第四十八章/Chapter 48476
第四十九章/Chapter 49487
第五十章/Chapter 50496
第五十一章/Chapter 51501
第五十二章/Chapter 52511
第五十三章/Chapter 53519
第五十四章/Chapter 54528
第五十五章/Chapter 55538
第五十六章/Chapter 56550
第五十七章/Chapter 57560
第五十八章/Chapter 58573
第五十九章/Chapter 59583
第六十章/Chapter 60592
第六十一章/Chapter 61606
第六十二章/Chapter 62619
书摘插图
第一章
Chapter 1
一八六五年三月二十三日下午快四点时，在太平洋上，一只氢气球被卷进龙卷风顶部的旋涡中。气球以时速九十英里的速度掠过，同时自身也在不停地转动着。
气球的吊篮中坐着五个人和一条狗，吊篮中的人扔下枪支弹药等物后，又升到四千五百英尺的 高空。
三月二十四日早晨，龙卷风转变成七级“疾风”。中午十一点，气球变成了椭圆形，开始下降。人们将存粮等最后一些物品也扔了出去，但气球里面氢气不足，他们面临着坠入海中的危险。
两点时，面对气球下四百米的海面，一个洪亮的声音让大家扔掉所有的东西。装着一万金法郎的袋子被扔到水中，人们抓着网索，吊篮也被扔到海里，气球又上升到两千英尺。
这时，人们发现了三十英里外的陆地。四点时，气球贴近了水面。半小时后，离陆地还有一英里，大家的半个身子已经浸在海里了。但就在离海岸还有几百米时，气球神奇地上升到了一千五百英尺的高空，风把它吹向与陆地平行的方向，最终落在了沙滩上。只有四名乘客从气球跳到岸上，刚才气球上升时有一名乘客掉到海里了。
re we rising again?"
"No. On the contrary."
"Are we descending?"
"Worse than that, captain! we are falling!"
"For Heaven's sake heave out the ballast!"
"There! the last sack is empty!"
"Does the balloon rise?"
"No!"
"I hear a noise like the dashing of waves. The sea is below the car! It cannot be more than 500 feet from us!"
"Over board with every weight!...everything!"
Such were the loud and startling words which resounded through the air, above the vast watery desert of the Pacific, about four o'clock in the evening of the 23rd of March, 1865.
Few can possibly have forgotten the terrible storm from the northeast, in the middle of the equinox of that year. The tempest raged without intermission from the 18th to the 26th of March. Its ravages were terrible in America, Europe, and Asia, covering a distance of eighteen hundred miles, and extending obliquely to the equator from the thirty-fifth north parallel to the fortieth south parallel. Towns were overthrown, forests uprooted, coasts devastated by the mountains of water which were precipitated on them, vessels cast on the shore, which the published accounts numbered by hundreds, whole districts leveled by waterspouts which destroyed everything they passed over, several thousand people crushed on land or drowned at sea; such were the traces of its fury, left by this devastating tempest. It surpassed in disasters those which so frightfully ravaged Havana and Guadalupe, one on the 25th of October, 1810, the other on the 26th of July, 1825.
But while so many catastrophes were taking place on land and at sea, a drama not less exciting was being enacted in the agitated air.
In fact, a balloon, as a ball might be carried on the summit of a waterspout, had been taken into the circling movement of a column of air and had traversed space at the rate of ninety miles an hour, turning round and round as if seized by some aerial maelstrom.
Beneath the lower point of the balloon swung a car, containing five passengers, scarcely visible in the midst of the thick vapor mingled with spray which hung over the surface of the ocean.
Whence, it may be asked, had come that plaything of the tempest? From what part of the world did it rise? It surely could not have started during the storm. But the storm had raged five days already, and the first symptoms were manifested on the 18th. It cannot be doubted that the balloon came from a great distance, for it could not have traveled less than two thousand miles in twenty-four hours.
At any rate the passengers, destitute of all marks for their guidance, could not have possessed the means of reckoning the route traversed since their departure. It was a remarkable fact that, although in the very midst of the furious tempest, they did not suffer from it. They were thrown about and whirled round and round without feeling the rotation in the slightest degree, or being sensible that they were removed from a horizontal position.
Their eyes could not pierce through the thick mist which had gathered beneath the car. Dark vapor was all around them. Such was the density of the atmosphere that they could not be certain whether it was day or night. No reflection of light, no sound from inhabited land, no roating of the ocean could have reached them, through the obscurity, while suspended in those elevated zones. Their rapid descent alone had informed them of the dangers which they ran from the waves. However, the balloon, lightened of heavy articles, such as ammunition, arms, and provisions, had risen into the higher layers of the atmosphere, to a height of 4, 500 feet. The voyagers, after having discovered that the sea extended beneath them, and thinking the dangers above less dreadful than those below, did not hesitate to throw overboard even their most useful articles, while they endeavored to lose no more of that fluid, the life of their enterprise, which sustained them above the abyss.
The night passed in the midst of alarms which would have been death to less energetic souls. Again the day appeared and with it the tempest began to moderate. From the beginning of that day, the 24th of March, it showed symptoms of abating. At dawn, some of the lighter clouds had risen into the more lofty regions of the air. In a few hours the wind had changed from a hurricane to a fresh breeze, that is to say, the rate of the transit of the atmospheric layers was diminished by half. It was still what sailors call "a close-reefed topsail breeze," but the commotion in the elements had none the less considerably diminished.
Towards eleven o'clock, the lower region of the air was sensibly clearer. The atmosphere threw off that chilly dampness which is felt after the passage of a great meteor. The storm did not seem to have gone farther to the west. It appeared to have exhausted itself. Could it have passed away in electric sheets, as is sometimes the case with regard to the typhoons of the Indian Ocean?
But at the same time, it was also evident that the balloon was again slowly descending with a regular movement. It appeared as if it were, little by little, collapsing, and that its case was lengthening and extending, passing from a spherical to an oval form. Towards midday the balloon was hovering above the sea at a height of only 2, 000 feet. It contained 50, 000 cubic feet of gas, and, thanks to its capacity, it could maintain itself a long time in the air, although it should reach a great altitude or might be thrown into a horizontal position.
Perceiving their danger, the passertgers east away the last articles which still weighed down the car, the few provisions they had kept, everything, even to their pocket-knives, and one of them, having hoisted himself on to the circles which united the cords of the net, tried to secure more firmly the lower point of the balloon.
It was, however, evident to the voyagers that the gas was failing, and that the balloon could no longer be sustained in the higher regions. They must infallibly perish!
There was not a continent, nor even an island, visible beneath them. The watery expanse did not present a single speck of land, not a solid surface upon which their anchor could hold.
It was the open sea, whose waves were still dashing with tremendous violence! It was the ocean, without any visible limits, even for those whose gaze, from their commanding position, extended over a radius of forty miles. The vast liquid plain, lashed without mercy by the storm, appeared as if covered with herds of furious chargers, whose white and disheveled crests were streaming in the wind. No land was in sight, not a solitary ship could be seen. It was necessary at any cost to arrest their downward course, and to prevent the balloon from being engulfed in the waves. The voyagers directed all their energies to this urgent work. But, notwithstanding their efforts, the balloon still fell, and at the same time shifted with the greatest rapidity, following the direction of the wind, that is to say, from the northeast to the southwest.
Frightful indeed was the situation of these unfortunate men. They were evidently no longer masters of the machine. All their attempts were useless. The case of the balloon collapsed more and more. The gas escaped without any possibility of retaining it. Their descent was visibly accelerated, and soon after midday the car hung within 600 feet of the ocean.
It was impossible to prevent the escape of gas, which rushed through a large rent in the silk. By lightening the car of all the articles which it contained, the passengers had been able to prolong their suspension in the air for a few hours. But the inevitable catastrophe could only be retarded, and if land did not appear before night, voyagers, car, and balloon must to a certainty vanish beneath the waves.
They now resorted to the only remaining expedient. They were truly dauntless men, who knew how to look death in the face. Not a single murmur escaped from their lips. They were determined to struggle to the last minute, to do anything to retard their fall. The car was only a sort of willow basket, unable to float, and there was not the slightest possibility of maintaining it on the surface of the sea.
Two more hours passed and the balloon was scarcely 400 feet above the water.
At that moment a loud voice, the voice of a man whose heart was inaccessible to fear, was heard. To this voice responded others not less determined.
"Is everything thrown out?"
"No, here are still 2, 000 dollars in gold."
A heavy bag immediately plunged into the sea.
"Does the balloon rise?"
"A little, but it will not be long before it falls again."
"What still remains to be thrown out?"
"Nothing."
"Yes! the car!"
"Let us catch hold of the net, and into the sea with the car."
This was, in fact, the last and only mode of lightening the balloon. The ropes which held the car were cut, and the balloon, after its fall, mounted 2, 000 feet. The five voyagers had hoisted themselves into the net, and clung to the meshes, gazing at the abyss.
The delicate sensibility of balloons is well known. It is sufficient to throw out the lightest article to produce a difference in its vertical position. The apparatus in the air is like a balance of mathematical precision. It can be thus easily understood that when it is lightened of any considerable weight its movement will be impetuous and sudden. So it happened on this occasion. But after being suspended for an instant aloft, the balloon began to redescend, the gas escaping by the rent which it was impossible to repair.
The men had done all that men could do. No human efforts could save them now.
They must trust to the mercy of Him who rules the elements.
At four o'clock the balloon was only 500 feet above the surface of the water.
A loud barking was heard. A dog accompanied the voyagers, and was held pressed close to his master in the meshes of the net.
"Top has seen something," cried one of the men. Then immediately a loud voice shouted,—
"Land! land!" The balloon, which the wind still drove towards the southwest, had since daybreak gone a considerable distance, which might be reckoned by hundreds of miles, and a tolerably high land had, in fact, appeared in that direction. But this land was still thirty miles off. It would not take less than an hour to get to it, and then there was the chance of falling to leeward.
An hour! Might not the balloon before that be emptied of all the fluid it yet retained?
Such was the terrible question! The voyagers could distinctly see that solid spot which they must reach at any cost. They were ignorant of what it was, whether an island or a continent, for they did not know to what part of the world the hurricane had driven them. But they must reach this land, whether inhabited or desolate, whether hospitable or not.
It was evident that the balloon could no longer support itself! Several times already had the crests of the enormous billows licked the bottom of the net, making it still heavier, and the balloon only half rose, like a bird with a wounded wing. Half an hour later the land was not more than a mile off, but the balloon, exhausted, flabby, hanging in great folds, had gas in its upper part alone. The voyagers, clinging to the net, were still too heavy for it, and soon, half plunged into the sea, they were beaten by the furious waves. The balloon-ease bulged out again, and the wind, taking it, drove it along like a vessel. Might it not possibly thus reach the land?
But, when only two fathoms off, terrible cries resounded from four pairs of lungs at once. The balloon, which had appeared as if it would never again rise, suddenly made an unexpected bound, after having been struck by a tremendous sea. As if it had been at that instant relieved of a new part of its weight, it mounted to a height of 1, 500 feet, and here it met a current of wind, which instead of taking it directly to the coast, carried it in a nearly parallel direction.
At last, two minutes later, it reached obliquely, and finally fell on a sandy beach, out of the reach of the waves.
The voyagers, aiding each other, managed to disengage themselves from the meshes of the net. The balloon, relieved of their weight, was taken by the wind, and like a wounded bird which revives for an instant, disappeared into space.
But the car had contained five passengers, with a dog, and the balloon only left four on the shore.
The missing person had evidently been swept off by the sea, which had just struck the net, and it was owing to this circumstance that the lightened balloon rose the last time, and then soon after reached the land. Scarcely had the four castaways set foot on firm ground, than they all, thinking of the absent one, simultaneously exclaimed, "Perhaps he will try to swim to land! Let us save him! let us save him!"
The Mysterious Island
Chapter 1
