An Antarctic Mystery by Jules Verne Fiction Fantasy & Magic (Hardcover)

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Manufacturer: Alan Rodgers Books

In this novel published in this edition as An Antarctic Mystery but also known as The Sphinx of the Ice Fields Captain Len Guy s brother is on the ship Jane when it goes missing and the Captain must convince the crew of the Halbrane to take a long and dangerous trip to Antarctic in hope of finding his brother and any other survivors of the Jane. But strange as the journey may be it s nowhere near as strange as what they will find waiting at its end. 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 (as opposed to exploratory) references to the archipelago.