Propeller Island

Propeller Island

Infobox Book
name = Propeller Island
title_orig = L'Île à hélice
translator = W.J. Gordon


image_caption =
author = Jules Verne
illustrator = Léon Benett
cover_artist =
country = France
language = French
series = Voyages Extraordinaires #41
subject =
genre = Adventure novel
publisher = Pierre-Jules Hetzel
pub_date = 1895
english_pub_date = 1896
media_type = Print
pages =
isbn =
oclc =
preceded_by = Captain Antifer
followed_by = Facing the Flag

"Propeller Island" ( _fr. L'Île à hélice) (also published as "The Floating Island, or The Pearl of the Pacific") is a science fiction novel by French author Jules Verne (1828–1905). It was first published in 1895 as part of the Voyages Extraordinaires. It relates the adventures of a French string quartet in Milliard City, a city on a massive ship in the Pacific Ocean, inhabited entirely by millionaires.


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