The Mysterious Island

The night passed in the midst of dangers that would have proved fatal to souls less courageous; and with the coming of day the hurricane showed signs of abatement.

<b>Jordan Stump</b> is an associate professor of French at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, and translator of more than half a dozen French novels. His translation of Nobel Prize–winning novelist Claude Simon’s <i>Le jardin des plantes</i> won the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for 2001.<br><br><b>Caleb Carr</b> is the bestselling author of <i>The Alienist</i> and, most recently, <i>The Lessons of Terror</i>. He lives in New York.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i>