During th )e US` Civil_ War, %*Union POWs escape in a#+ bal?loon and ,end up stran) ded ;on+ a South [Pa`-:cific island* , inhab[`ite)d*- by gia((nt plants an;
d a,nim *als.$ #%They must use:[\; the ir ing:/.enui`ty to s! +u?`;rv(#=ive the dan#ger$ s, and to de
vise a wa_*%y to return home. Sequel to '20,000 Leagues \+U
nder ?the.[
Sea'_ . W!/@(ritten by Stewa.rt M. Cl;_[ame =#@n^( 　　In ? 1865, d] u@ ring th.)e sieg `!e of Ric!,=hmo\nd, Virg@)@i\=nia, the` union s /oldiers POW Captain Har
.ding, Neb ==and He^=rbert escape $
in=; a #-balloon du:
ring =a storm w@ith(( two \c(onfed#[era^te pris\%oners, Sergeant Penc,,)roft _and the journ_ali`.st Spile-t%:-t. Th!\e -uncontro-llable wind takes th?#@e balloon t@o a myst)$erious island in[, the Sou,(!th Pa^#`cific in_, t \h#,e area of ]+New
@Zealand. Capt!$ a i=^-n$# Harding self-proclaims the le;ad;er of the group and t^he#$(y look f^..or food; s,+ooner ^they disco =ver that@. they a[re s:
tran.;ded in an isl)@and. F,`/urthe?r, , t::hey are _attacked$]% $ )by a giant cra #b that (becomes their $.first meal. Al)-o=[ng =[th(e d
ays,` they bu.ild a shelter_? and finds .that the island is. in^[habi]ted by  giant a^nimals. ^A couple /, of %\d :ay),s later, they  find two#== castaways on the beach, the ari$stocratic La(()dy Ma ry Fairch^ild.? and her sexy niece Elena. La
;te`*r th.!\;+ey fi!n(:d a t$[*runk .wi?th weapo?ns and:[^ instrument_s like ` _se xtant a( nd she+l:=_t-er wi\`!t+]h a journal o`
f ] a,%; man` l:eft alone in the i_sla`@:nd by pi%r)ates. W\`, hen th e pirate vesse^l a[=
rrives i?`n[@ the i` sla=nd$*, they are helped by Captain Nemo of the /=Nautilus,:. 
_ a su\bmarine that +)$had % supposedly sunk in t\he coast of Mexico eig^%!\h=;t yea=`r;/@s; ago@. N??emo :(is/($ famous as the man that*) tried to_% end-; strike among man\: . When the vo%,^-lcano begins act+ivity, they need to leave the -.island to save their lives. -;
Written by Claudio `_` Carva==lho, Rio de #Jane `  ir[/o, B razil