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RESENSI BUKU SIMPLIFIED BOOK OF THE MYSTERY OF THE ISLAND
-Title:
The Mystery of The Island
-Author:
Jules Verne
-Simplified by:
Michael West M.A., D.PHIL.
-Ilustrated by:
Christoper Evans
-First Published:
1938
-Published by:
Longmans, Green and CO LTD

-Summaries:
The Mystery of The Island starts off during the American Civil War, a ballon carrying four men and a boy and a dog fall into the sea. The five passengers are Harding as a captain, Neb as a black servant, Spillet as a reporter, Pencroft as a sailor, Herbert, the fifteen-year-old orphan son of one of Pencroft’s former sea captains, and a dog, Top.
The ballon falls near the island, and the ballon has lost Harding with his dog; so it went up again. The ballon was falling. It touched the ground. The three men and the boy jumped down into the ground. The ballon went up. It was lost the sky.
The next morning, Neb looks for Harding, while the others explore the island and Spillet went up the hill to look at the island. Herbert and Pencroft walked by the sea. They wanted to find food and they built a wall on the north side of the house. Suddenly Spillet and Neb coming back.
The next day, they suddenly hear Top barking. The dog leads them to Captain Harding. They came to cave. And there was Harding. He was at foot mountain. And than they walked to the sea. And they come back to the house. Then, under the brilliant direction of Harding, they can make bows and arrows, they can wash their clothes, and they can make cooking pots.
The next day, they went out the house to see the island. They drew a map and put names on it. They went to the top of Black Mountain. They saw a volcano. They saw a big lake, and they called it Blue Lake. They went down to the lake and see the fish.
One day, Pencroft finds washed up on the beach a large chest containing many useful items, including books, clothes, and weapons. The new house was ready. They will make a ship to take them back to their home. They began to make a ship. They had worked everyday. And suddenly, they heard a noise. It was the sound of a gun. They looked out. There was a ship near the island. It is a pirate ship. The pirate ship will kill them. But, Harding together with the others shoot with rocks at the boats as they come. They shot at the men in the boat. Three men were killed. Then suddenly there was a great exploision. The whole ship was thrown up out the sea.it came down in two pieces. The boats and men went down under the water. All the pirates were dead.
At some point, Neb finds a torpedo on the beach, leaving them all to wonder who could be helping them. A few months later, they get a note from their mysterious helper: he wishes to see them because he is about to die.
The men eventually go into yet another cave. They find a boat but are not sure where to go. When looking into the water, Harding recognizes Nautilus, Captain Noman’s submarine. By then, Noman is an old dying man who tells them his story, revealing he is really the Indian Prince Dakkar, and expresses dislike for the British who took India away from its people.
Trusting Harding, Noman gives him a box of money to use wisely, and they have dinner together. Nemo instructs them to let Nautilus sink when he dies, and to take the money and the small boat. The boat helps them in exploring and fishing until they face their final attack, which is that of the island’s very own explosive volcano. Just in time, they are rescued by a ship that takes them back to America where they start new lives.