The Extraordinary Voyages
Five fugitives, one balloon and a hurricane. Jules Verne’s great novel in a new, complete Hebrew translation from the original French, in three volumes, with all of Jules Férat’s illustrations from the 1875 illustrated edition.
Volume I
March 1865. Five prisoners of war escape from besieged Richmond in a balloon, and the storm casts them onto the shore of an island marked on no map. They have almost nothing, and a single match.
Volume II
The island never stops sending signals: a crate washed up on the shore, and a bottle with a note in it. The settlers build a boat with their own hands and set out into the open ocean to rescue a man they know nothing about.
Volume III
A sail on the horizon, and at the masthead a black flag. The settlers must defend the world they have built, and as the danger grows, so do the interventions of the hidden hand that watches over them.
The complete novel, 818 pages and 149 illustrations
Delivery to your door in Israel: ₪29 per order, however many books it holds. The books are printed in Jerusalem.
From the original French, following the Hetzel edition, Paris 1875. No paragraph has been shortened and no detail left out, and Verne’s footnotes are in place.
Jules Férat’s 149 illustrations, engraved by Barbant, were scanned from a copy of the illustrated edition and cleaned one by one. Each stands on its own page, where Verne’s publisher placed it.
The terms of seafaring, chemistry and medicine, and the names of animals and plants, were checked against the terminology database of the Academy of the Hebrew Language.
The map of the island from the original edition, with every name in Hebrew: Mount Franklin, Lake Grant, the Mercy, Union Bay, Granite House. The map is printed in each of the three volumes.
Aerostat publishes classics of world literature in new translations from the original, with the illustrations of the first editions. The Mysterious Island is our first book.
