An Antarctic Mystery - Jules Verne - Books - Createspace Independent Publishing Platf - 9781519387707 - November 28, 2015
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An Antarctic Mystery

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An Antarctic Mystery (French: Le Sphinx des glaces, The Sphinx of the Ice Fields) is a two-volume novel by Jules Verne. Written in 1897, it is a response to Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. It follows the adventures of the narrator and his journey from the Kerguelen Islands aboard Halbrane. 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. The story is set in 1839, eleven years after the events in Arthur Gordon Pym, one year after the publication of that book. The narrator is a wealthy American Jeorling, who has entertained himself with private studies of the wildlife on the Kerguelen Islands and is now looking for a passage back to the USA. Halbrane is one of the first ships to arrive at Kerguelen, and its captain Len Guy somewhat reluctantly agrees to have Jeorling as a passenger as far as Tristan da Cunha.

Media Books     Paperback Book   (Book with soft cover and glued back)
Released November 28, 2015
ISBN13 9781519387707
Publishers Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages 260
Dimensions 152 × 229 × 14 mm   ·   353 g
Language English  

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