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The most detailed map of jules vernes lincoln island the mysterious island, here ive translated it to english and rendered it in colour. Publication date 1973 topics cultural literacy and humanities, reading leveladult. I listened to blackstone audios production which was nicely narrated by tom parker. Louis and his friend the hindmost, an alien of the piersons puppeteer race, are prisoners of the ghoul protector tunesmith, a ringworld native, who is deliberately provoking the warships that surround his world.
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