Invasion of the Sea
Jules Verne, celebrated French author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in 80 Days, wrote over 60 novels collected in the popular series Voyages Extraordinaires. A handful of these have never been translated into English, including Invasion of the Sea, written in 1904 when large-scale canal digging was very much a part of the political, economic, and military strategy of the world's imperial powers.Instead of linking two seas, as existing canals (the Suez and the Panama) did, Verne proposed a canal that would create a sea in the heart of the Sahara Desert. The story raises a host of concerns -- environmental, cultu…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8195-6558-7
- EAN: 9780819565587
- Produktnummer: 2805122
- Verlag: Wesleyan Univ Pr
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 258 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B13.2 cm x D1.7 cm 308 g
- Auflage: Trans. from the
- Gewicht: 308
Über den Autor
Jules Verne (1828-1905) was the first author to popularize the literary genre of science fiction. Arthur B. Evans is professor of French at DePauw University and series editor for Wesleyan's Early Classics of Science Fiction series. Edward Baxter is a contributor to The Jules Verne Encyclopedia (1996), and his previous translations include Verne's The Fur Country (1987).
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