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The Floating Island

Jules Verne

First published 1896
Publisher Sampson Low, Marston & Company
Format Hardcover
Type Novel
Pages vii+382

{{Tr|W. J. Gordon}} and significantly abridged to remove anti-US and anti-British passages. This translation begins: "When a journey begins badly it rarely ends well. At least that ought to have been the opinion of the four instrumentalists whose instruments lay on the ground, the carriage in which they were riding having suddenly upset against a mound by the side of the road."

{{Tr|William J. Gordon}} 79 full-page illustrations (Christie's Auction House).

Title Year Publisher Format Type Catalog ID Cover Artist Pages
The Floating Island; or, The Pearl of the Pacific Cover 1900 W. L. Allison Company Hardcover Novel vii+382
The Floating Island Cover 2009 Wildside Press Trade Paperback Novel 392
The Floating Island Cover 2009 Wildside Press Hardcover Novel 392