Here I present: Jules Verne (1928-1905), “The Antarctic Mystery”, 1897.
SUMMARY.
The book consists of twenty-six (26) chapters; and, the “table of contents” of the book is shown BELOW.
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
Chapter 1. The Kerguelen Islands.
Chapter 2. The Schooner “Halbrane”.
Chapter 3. Captain Len Guy.
Chapter 4. From the Kergulelen Isles to Prince Edward Island.
Chapter 5. Edgar Poe’s Romance.
Chapter 6. An Ocean Waif.
Chapter 7. Tristan D’Acunha.
Chapter 8. Bound for the Falklands.
Chapter 9. Fitting Out the “Halbrane”.
Chapter 10. The Outset of the Enterprise.
Chapter 11. From the Sandwich Islands to the Polar Circle.
Chapter 12. Between the Polar Circle and the Ice Wall.
Chapter 13. Along the Front of the Icebergs.
Chapter 14. A Voice in a Dream.
Chapter 15. Bennet Iset.
Chapter 16. Tsalal Island.
Chapter 17. And Pym.
Chapter 18. A Revelation.
Chapter 19. Land.
Chapter 20. Unmerciful Disaster.
Chapter 21. Amid the Mist.
Chapter 22. In Camp.
Chapter 23. Found at Last.
Chapter 24. Eleven Years in a Few Pages.
Chapter 25. We were the First.
Chapter 26. A Little Remnant.
Here I presented: Jules Verne (1928-1905), “The Antarctic Mystery”, 1897.
COMMENTS.
This book is a sequel to Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849), “The Narrative’ of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket”, 1838.
Neither Edgar Allan Poe nor Jules Verne had actually visited the remote Kerguelen Islands, located in the Indian Ocean but their works are some of the few literary (as opposed to exploratory) references to the archipelago.
PLOT OF STORY.
The story is set in 1839, eleven years after the events in Arthur Gordon Pym, one year after the publication of that book.
The narrator is a wealthy American Jeorling, who has entertained himself with private studies of the wildlife on the Kerguelen Islands and is now looking for a passage back to the United States. Halbrane is one of the first ships to arrive at Kerguelen, and its captain Len Guy somewhat reluctantly agrees to have Jeorling as a passenger as far as Tristan da Cunha.
