The Adventures of Captain Hatteras is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, reprinted in the United States in two parts: The English at the North Pole and The Desert of Ice. The novel was published for the first time in 1864. The definitive version from 1866 was included into Voyages Extraordinaires series. Although it was the first book of the series it was labeled as number two. Three of Verne's books from 1863-65 (Five Weeks in a Balloon, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and From the Earth to the Moon) were added into the series retroactively. Captain Hatteras shows many similarities with…mehr
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, reprinted in the United States in two parts: The English at the North Pole and The Desert of Ice. The novel was published for the first time in 1864. The definitive version from 1866 was included into Voyages Extraordinaires series. Although it was the first book of the series it was labeled as number two. Three of Verne's books from 1863-65 (Five Weeks in a Balloon, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and From the Earth to the Moon) were added into the series retroactively. Captain Hatteras shows many similarities with British explorer John Franklin. Includes a new introduction by literary scholar Darrell Schweitzer.
"It was now two years and a half since the castaways from the balloon had been thrown on Lincoln Island, and during that period there had been no communication between them and their fellow-creatures. Once the reporter had attempted to communicate with the inhabited world by confiding to a bird a letter which contained the secret of their situation, but that was a chance on which it was impossible to reckon seriously. Ayrton, alone, under the circumstances which have been related, had come to join the little colony. Now, suddenly, on this day, the 17th of October, other men had unexpectedly appeared in sight of the island, on that deserted sea!"