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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 continuation of Edgar Allan Poe 's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.
- Jules Verne
- 1897
Jan 25, 2009 · A classic adventure novel by the French writer, set in the Kerguelen Islands and the Antarctic region. Follow the journey of Captain Len Guy and his crew, who encounter strange phenomena and mysteries in the ice-bound land.
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- Jules Verne
- An Antarctic Mystery
- 1897
- Hoey, Frances Cashel, 1830-1908
In AN ANTARCTIC MYSTERY, Jules Verne pushes the "reset" button on Poe's arctic journey, and readers are forced to endure chapter-after-boring-chapter of bland sea-faring adventures as we wait for the new ship's crew to finally pick up where the previous crew left off.
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AN ANTARCTIC MYSTERY (Also called THE SPHINX OF THE ICE FIELDS) CHAPTER I. THE KERGUELEN ISLANDS. No doubt the following narrative will be received: with entire incredulity, but I think it well that the public should be put in possession of the facts narrated in "An Antarctic Mystery."
Aug 11, 2020 · This is Jules Verne's original sequel to a book that had fired his own youthful imagination but which he felt to be incomplete: Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym. As Captain Len Guy starts on a voyage to search for his brother, events unfold with rapid speed.
Apr 10, 2012 · Kindle Edition. Eleven years after the disappearance of Edgar Allan Poe’s Arthur Gordon Pym aboard the Jane, wealthy American Jeorling is returning to the United States on the Halbrane when it encounters an iceberg on which is found a note indicating the fate of the Jane and its crew.
- Jules Verne
