An entry in The Whole Story series, this is an annotated edition of
the 1873 classic, printed on coated stock and enhanced by both
atmospheric new paintings and hundreds of postage-stamp-sized
19th-century photos and prints. The explanatory captions (credited
to Jean-Pierre Verdet only on the copyright page) accompanying the
latter are largely superfluous, although they do add random
snippets of historical background to the journey. It's the views of
old ships and trains, of costumed natives, and distant ports of
call - from Port Said to San Francisco - that evoke the tale's
panorama of the exotic, just as the many lurid Verne trading cards
and other spinoffs capture the plot's melodramatic highlights. A
good way to put both book and story in context for young armchair
travelers. (Kirkus Reviews)
With an Introduction and Notes by Professor Roger Cardinal.
University of Kent at Canterbury. Translationsare by Paul Desages
(Around the World in Eighty Days) and Arthur Chambers (Five Weeks
in a Balloon). JULES VERNE (1828-1905) POSSESSED that rare
storyteller's gift of being able to present the far-fetched and the
downright unbelievable in such a way as effortlessly to inspire his
reader's allegiance and trust. This volume contains two of his
best-loved yarns, chosen from among the sixty-four titles of Les
Voyages Extraordinaires, Verne's pioneering contribution to the
canon of modern science fiction. Around the World in Eighty Days
(1873) relates the hair-raising journey made as a wager by the
Victorian gentleman Phileas Fogg, who succeeds - but only just! -
in circling the globe within eighty days. The dour Fogg's obsession
with his timetable is complemented by the dynamism and versatility
of his French manservant, Passepartout, whose talent for getting
into scrapes brings colour and suspense to the race against time.
Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863) was Verne's first novel. It
documents an apocryphal jaunt across the continent of Africa in a
hydrogen balloon designed by the omniscient, imperturbable and ever
capable Dr Fergusson, the prototype of the Vernian adventurer.
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