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More Jules Verne, "The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century (Duckworth Discoverers)" Having abandoned law for literature, Jules Verne enjoyed enormous success during his lifetime, his novels combining adventure, fantasy and popular science to create a new literary genre. Written in a realistic style which made them readily accessible to 19th-century readers, Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Around the World in Eighty Days and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea have, of course, become classics. After these novels came the publication in 1880 of this work of non-fiction, in which Verne outlines the work of astronomers and cartographers before going on to recount the voyages of various European navigators, such as Alexander Selkirk (the Scottish castaway upon whom Daniel Defoe based Robinson Crusoe), Captain Cook and de Bougainville to all parts of the globe, from the delightfully named Pernicious Islands to the Arctic. Verne clearly researched his subject with considerable thoroughness, reading numerous first-hand narratives written by captains, midshipmen and naturalists in order to assemble detailed accounts of the explorers' climactic, navigational and health hazards, and their discoveries of flora and fauna. Thank you for the RS mirror! Excellent post. Thank you very much, Pariman! Magnífica obra, com 96 belas ilustrações.
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