Original title: An Antarctic Mystery
Author Name: Jules Gabriel Verne
ISBN: 0008166773
Original Language: French
Genre: Lost World, adventure novel, fantasy, travel novel and adventure novel at sea
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Current year of publication: 1999
Year of reading: 2017
Additional Information:
This book is in memory of Edgar Allan Poe. I advise reading first the story written by him with the title The Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym. To understand, this book is a continuation.
Summary of the work:
The story begins when Jerking is in the Kerguelen islands in a geographical study completed a few months ago and awaiting the arrival of a ship to take passage in it, so the August 7 morning comes Goleta Halberne led by Len Guy to It was accustomed not take passengers, but a conversation with Jeorling makes him change his mind at the thought that he could meet Arturo Gordon Pyn in Virginia. But as for Jeorling is not real history narrated by Edgar Allan Poe. In his book; The Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym, for Captain has all the basics of reality. Because of Goleta Jane and Captain William Guy, who appears in the book. It is none other than his brother who disappeared on the same date.
With the passage in Goleta direction of Puerto Prince Edward, during the trip no incident rather than an iceberg off the port with a corpse inside that is discovered during melting thereof, the captain ordered his collection when in Goleta Bridge, Captain Patterson recognizes that it is the second of the Jane. Containing a diary in your pocket with blurred letters that could be read as follows:
Dragged from the June 3 in North Island Tsalas ... There is still ... Captain William Guy and five of the crew of the Jane ... The Iceberg ... From June 13 ... exhausted my last resort ... Today June 16, will die.
With this message Captain