The Purchase of the North Pole (Illustrated Edition)

By Jules Verne and Julio Verne

Book Overview

Verne (1828-1905) was a French novelist, playwright and poet. He quit his early profession as a lawyer to write for magazines and the stage, and 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 Centre of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Whilst he is considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, his reputation is markedly different in English-speaking countries where he is more often perceived as a writer of genre fiction or children's books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered translations of his works. First published in the original French as Sans dessus dessous in 1889, The Purchase of the North Pole is the third book in his Baltimore Gun Club series all featuring the same characters. The previous two titles were From the Earth to the Moon (1865) and A Trip to the Moon and Around It (1870). This anonymous English translation includes three illustrations.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1406898635
• ISBN13: 9781406898637
• Release Date: November 2019
• Publisher: Echo Library
• Length: 96 Pages
• Weight: 0.33 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 6.0" x 9.0"