Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427033870
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The Fur Country Volume 1 of 2 Seventy Degrees North Latitude (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427033870
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427033870
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 378
Book Description
The Fur Country
Author: N. D'Anvers
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783337674557
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9783337674557
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 548
Book Description
The Fur Country
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427028478
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Jules Verne's The Fur Country, or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude (1859) takes us to the Arctic Circle and describes life during the polar winter. It criticises the incessant killing of animals for their fur and raises several environmental issues as well. Characters include officers of the Hudson's Bay Company, an astronomer, and a travelling Englishwoman and her companion. Like his other works, this one demonstrates the weakness of men in face of divine power and the determination that leads men to cross impossible hurdles.
Publisher: ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN: 1427028478
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 318
Book Description
Jules Verne's The Fur Country, or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude (1859) takes us to the Arctic Circle and describes life during the polar winter. It criticises the incessant killing of animals for their fur and raises several environmental issues as well. Characters include officers of the Hudson's Bay Company, an astronomer, and a travelling Englishwoman and her companion. Like his other works, this one demonstrates the weakness of men in face of divine power and the determination that leads men to cross impossible hurdles.
The Fur Country
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN: 2322253510
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Lt. Jasper Hobson and other members of the Hudson's Bay Trading Co. and his team along with the company's guests, Mrs. Paulina Barnett and Thomas Black travel through the North West Territories of Canada to Cape Bathurst on the Arctic Ocean. At Cape Bathurst, Hobson intends on creating a new trading post for the company, Paulina Barnett is along for the adventure and Thomas Black intends on viewing a solar eclipse during the summer of the following year. The party establishes their outpost before winter sets in, but when spring arrives, nearby volcanic activity triggers an earthquake, which the colony survives; however, a startling revelation is revealed later in the summer when Thomas Black tries to observe the total eclipse. Cape Bathurst has changed its position to the north by almost three degrees of latitude and to the west by several hundred miles; Hobson determines that the Cape has become an island. Now the party's only hope is the onset of winter, so they might travel across the ice, to reach the mainland Russian America (Alaska). When a mild (by Arctic standards) winter sets in and the island is locked by the ice directly north of the Bering Strait; but the ice is not sufficiently frozen enough for safe passage across the ice. The islands colonists wait for the spring thaw and hope that island will move south with the Bering current and that the boat they've built will be able to take them to safety.
Publisher: BoD - Books on Demand
ISBN: 2322253510
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Lt. Jasper Hobson and other members of the Hudson's Bay Trading Co. and his team along with the company's guests, Mrs. Paulina Barnett and Thomas Black travel through the North West Territories of Canada to Cape Bathurst on the Arctic Ocean. At Cape Bathurst, Hobson intends on creating a new trading post for the company, Paulina Barnett is along for the adventure and Thomas Black intends on viewing a solar eclipse during the summer of the following year. The party establishes their outpost before winter sets in, but when spring arrives, nearby volcanic activity triggers an earthquake, which the colony survives; however, a startling revelation is revealed later in the summer when Thomas Black tries to observe the total eclipse. Cape Bathurst has changed its position to the north by almost three degrees of latitude and to the west by several hundred miles; Hobson determines that the Cape has become an island. Now the party's only hope is the onset of winter, so they might travel across the ice, to reach the mainland Russian America (Alaska). When a mild (by Arctic standards) winter sets in and the island is locked by the ice directly north of the Bering Strait; but the ice is not sufficiently frozen enough for safe passage across the ice. The islands colonists wait for the spring thaw and hope that island will move south with the Bering current and that the boat they've built will be able to take them to safety.