Jules Verne and the conquest of the polar regions

Abstract Like many of his contemporaries, the popular novelist Jules Verne (1828–1905) was deeply influenced by the geographical explorations of the mid 19th century. Of more than 60 novels published from 1855 onward in his series Les voyages extraordinaires , which involved tales of adventure, trav...

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Published in:Polar Record
Main Author: Riffenburgh, Beau
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Cambridge University Press (CUP) 1991
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Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400012638
https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400012638