An Antarctic Mystery

Download or read book An Antarctic Mystery written by Jules Verne and published by anboco. This book was released on 2016-08-13 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Antarctic Mysteryis a two-volume novel by Jules Verne. Written in 1897, it is a response to Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. It follows the adventures of the narrator and his journey from the Kerguelen Islands aboard Halbrane. Neither Poe nor Verne had actually visited the remote Kerguelen Islands, located in the south Indian Ocean, but their works are some of the few literary references to the archipelago.