| An Antarctic Mystery by Jules Verne, Fiction, Fantasy & Magic Contributor(s): Verne, Jules (Author), Hoey, Cashel (Translator) |
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ISBN: 1598183206 ISBN-13: 9781598183207 Publisher: Aegypan OUR PRICE: $16.10 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 2006 Annotation: Jules Verne is best known for such novels as "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea," "Around the World in 80 Days," and "Journey to the Center of the Earth," but he did a great deal of other work as well -- he published two books a year for decades, and left behind an "oeuvre" that approaches vast. In this novel, published in this edition as "An Antarctic Mystery" but also known as "The Sphinx of the Ice Fields," Captain Len Guy's brother is on the ship "Jane" when it goes missing, and the Captain must convince the crew of the "Halbrane" to take a long and dangerous trip to Antarctic in hope of finding his brother and any other survivors of the "Jane," But strange as the journey may be, it's nowhere near as strange as what they will find waiting at its end. . . . |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Juvenile Fiction | Fantasy & Magic - Juvenile Fiction | Science Fiction - Space Exploration - Juvenile Fiction | Action & Adventure - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.46" H x 6" W x 9" (0.66 lbs) 200 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: But strange as the journey may be, it's nowhere near as strange as what they will find waiting at its end. Neither Poe nor Verne had actually visited the remote Kerguelen Islands, located in the south Indian Ocean, but their works are some of the few literary (as opposed to exploratory) references to the archipelago. |
Contributor Bio(s): Verne, Jules: - "Jules Gabriel Verne (1828 - 1905) was a French novelist, poet and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction. Verne was born to bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes, where he was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)." |