<p>This book is a sequel to "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea". A<br>party of British adventurers, who had been ballooning, but whose trip<br>had ended by being cast away on a Pacific island, have various setbacks<br>due to both pirates and convicts who had escaped from jails in mainland<br>Australasia. They realise that at times there appears to be some kind<br>of entity that is looking after them.<br><br>This entity proves to be none oth...