![]() He was a devotee of polar exploration though somewhat hampered by not reading English. There’s no doubt Verne turned over a library for this book. Real polar explorers found it one of the most accurate pictures ever written of life in the Arctic - or so a footnoted source says. ![]() Four English were done in the 1870s, but Butcher, as the back cover would have it, “the father of Verne Studies”, says none were subsequently done until his. This was Jules Verne’s second novel and the first of his Extraordinary Journeys, a series that continued for 50 years and 63 more books. Review: The Adventures of Captain Hatteras, Jules Verne, trans. I thought I was getting Verne’s sequel to Edgar Allan Poe’s The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym.įor the record, that would be Verne’s An Antarctic Mystery. I was in a hurry, and I’d heard the title of this Verne novel, saw it was polar story, so I grabbed it off the shelf without a closer look. On January 22, 2014, I was at a flea market in Texas. ![]()
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