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A new illustrated gift edition of a beloved classic. Three hundred years ago, a great deal of the world as we now know it was still undiscovered.

When Humphrey Van Weyden finds himself sailing to Japan aboard the Ghost, he has to face weeks of brutality at the hands of Captain Wolf Larsen, until he decides to take desperate measures to save himself and the rest of the crew.

Prospero, the deposed Duke of Milan, uses his skill at controlling natural forces to cause the shipwreck of his old opponents, forcing them to seek refuge on the island where he and his daughter Miranda have been living in exile, and setting the stage for Miranda to fall in love with Ferdinand, the prince of Naples.

"A minutely circumstantial account of the hero's shipwreck and escape to an uninhabitated island, and the methodical industry whereby he makes himself a comfortable home.