The Underground City Illustrated

By: Verne, Jules

A novel about the fortunes of a mining community called Aberfoyle which is near Stirling, Scotland.Miner James Starr, after receiving a letter from an old friend, leaves for the Aberfoyle mine.Although believed to be mined out a decade earlier, James Starr finds a mine overman, Simon Ford, along with his family living deep inside the mine. Simon Ford has found a large vein of coal in the mine but the characters must deal with mysterious and unexplainable happenings in and around the mine.Les Indes noires (literally The Black Indies) is a novel by the French writer Jules Verne, serialized in Le Temps in March and April 1877 and published immediately afterward by Pierre-Jules Hetzel.The first UK edition was published in October 1877 by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington as The Child of the Cavern, or Strange Doings Underground.Other English titles for the novel include Black Diamonds and The Underground City.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B093M54Z44
• ISBN13: 9798745068935
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.42 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"