Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, 1912 was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়ের “Mountain of the Moon” চাঁদের পাহাড় Chander Pahar, 1937 (which was an “African-adventure” SciFi by an Indian writer) also was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Here I present: Jules Verne, “The Village in the Treetops” (Le village aerien )”, 1901 which was an African adventure SciFi.
The “table of contents” of the book is shown BELOW.
The book consists of eighteen (18) chapters.
Chapter. “Title”.
1. “After a Long March”.
2. “The Moving Flames”.
3. “Scattered”.
4. “Decision to Make, Decision Made”.
5. “The First Days March”.
6. “Still Towards the South-West”.
7. “The Empty Cage’.
8. “Dr. Johausen”.
9. “Down the Rio Johausen”.
10. “Ngora’.
11. “On the Nineteenth of March”.
12. “Beneath the Trees”.
13. “The Village in the Trees”.
14. “The Waggdis”.
15. “Three Weeks’ Study”.
16. “His Majesty Mselo-Tala Tala”.
17. “The Condition of Dr. Johausen”.
18. “Sudden Conclusion”.
The story begins as follows:
First Chapter, First Page.
#1. “After a Long March”.
” ‘But an American Congo’ asked Max Huber. ‘Isn’t there any question of that? ‘What would be the use, my dear Max?’ replied John Cort. ‘Are we in the United States running short of wide-open spaces? … With all those newly-discovered desert regions to explore between Alaska and Texas! Before looking for colonies outside, we’d better colonize our own land, it seems to me.’ ‘Well, my dear John, if things go on as they are the European nations will end up by sharing all Africa between them – over ten million square miles! Are the Americans going to leave all that to the English and French and Germans and so on?’ ‘The Americans aren’t concerned in this, any more than the Russians’ John Cort explained’ and for the same reason.’
The story ends as follows:
Last Chapter, Last Page.
#18. ”Sudden Conclusion”.
On the 20th May, John Cort, Max Huber, Khamis and Llanga entered the factory near the town. Here their friends, very uneasy at so prolonged an absence, with no news of them for nearly six months, welcomed them with open arms. Neither Khamis nor the young native could separate John Cort and Max Huber. Had they adopted Llanga, and had not the foreloper been their devoted guide through-out that adventurous journey? … And Dr. Johausen? … And the Tree-tops Village of Ngala, lost in the depth of the great forest? … Well, sooner or later, some expedition must make with these strange Waggdis a more intimate contact in the interest of modern anthropological science. As for the German doctor, he is mad, and even supporting that he regained his reason and that they took him back to Malimba, who knows if he would not respect the time during which he had reigned under the name of Mselo-Tala Tala? Who knows whether, thans to him, this primitive people will not pass one day under the protectorate of the German Empire? … But it is always possible that England …
Here I presented: Jules Verne, “The Village in the Treetops” ( Le village aerien )”, 1901 which was an African adventure SciFi.
SUMMARY.
In “The Village in the Treetops.” the reader makes the acquaintance of two adventurers in their mid-20s, John Cort, an American, and Max Huber, a Frenchman. The two work in a factory of some sort in Libreville, Gabon in Central Africa of 1898, and have recently been on an ivory-hunting expedition with a Portugese trader and a large retinue. Trouble arises suddenly for the caravan when an elephant stampede kills the trader and puts all the servants to rout, leaving Cort and Huber alone with Khamis (a 35-year-old “foreloper” guide from Cameroon) and their 10-year-old adopted native son, Llanga. The quartet must now trek over 1,00 miles on foot to reach Libreville, Gabon again.
Edgar Rice Burroughs, “Tarzan of the Apes”, 1912 was the topic of an earlier blog post.
Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay বিভূতিভূষণ বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়ের “Mountain of the Moon” চাঁদের পাহাড় Chander Pahar, 1937 (which was an “African-adventure” SciFi by an Indian writer) also was the topic of an earlier blog post.
