An Antarctic Mystery
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| Rating | : | 4.93 (861 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1523236620 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 208 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-26 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Nice Surprise - Interesting Read Verne is a master - This is a book I hadn't heard of until I read it. I really enjoyed it. This was written before Antarctica was explored. It was interesting to read Verne's speculations on the subject. He was pretty close on a lot of things.. Issues with digitizing. When they digitized this book, the double quotation marks ("), apostrophes ('), ellipses (), and degree symbols (°) were all replaced by one or more question marks. As a result, it was sometime difficult to read. Moreover, there are numerous optical character recognition (OCR) errors that were introduced during the digitizing process. These seem to get more numerous the further you get into the boo. "Imagine being left alone in the Antarctic" according to Christine Richardson. One of the most interesting books ever written - think about it, Edgar Allen Poe, writes a book, and hes books are strange enough, but Verne, brilliant and who's books went from adventure, mystery, space travel, inner earth travel, inventions, like the submarine, megalomaniacs like Nemo, scientific experiments gone wild, and here he is writing a sequel to Poe's book.I wont reveal the ending, as is an u
Language Notes Text: English, French (translation)
It is sequel to Edgar Allen Poe's The Narrative of A. Gordon Pym, but never having read the Poe story, I think this book is a great stand alone story. Includes unique illustrations!. If you like classic novels, victorian era novels, or adventure novels than this book is worth the time to read. Fans of classic adventure fiction will delight in Jules Verne's This is a great classic Antarctic adventure story
He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). . Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828 March 24, 1905) was a French author who pioneered the science fiction genre