The Fur Country

The Fur Country (

The Extraordinary Voyages series, first published in 1873. The novel was serialized in Magasin d’Éducation et de Récréation from 20 September 1872 to 15 December 1873. The two-volume first original French edition and the first illustrated large-format edition were published in 1873 by Pierre-Jules Hetzel.^[1] The first English translation by N. D’Anvers (pseudonym of Mrs. Arthur (Nancy) Bell) was also published in 1873.^[2]

Plot summary

In 1859 Lt. Jasper Hobson and other members of the

whaling ship

finds them. Every member in Hobson's party is rescued and they all survive.

Publication history

1873, UK, London: Sampson Low, Pub date November 1873; first UK edition, translated by

N. D'Anvers

(Mrs. Arthur (Nancy) Bell), as The Fur Country or Seventy Degrees North Latitude

1874, US, Boston: James Osgood, Pub date 1874; first United States edition

1879, UK, Routledge, Pub date 1879; translation by Henry Frith

1966, UK, London: Arco, Pub date 1966; abridged and edited by I.O. Evans in 2 volumes as The Sun in Eclipse and Through the Behring Strait

1987, Canada, Toronto: NC Press
ISBN 0-920053-82-3
, Pub date October 1987; new translation by Edward Baxter

2008, UK, Classic Comic Store Ltd, Classics Illustrated (JES) #41 facsimile edition (JES13027), retitled "The Floating Island"

References

^ Cf. Piero Gondolo della Riva: Bibliographie analytique de toutes les œuvres de Jules Verne. Tome I. Société Jules Verne. Pages 36-37. 1977.
^ Von Lintel, Amy (2015). Nancy Bell's Elementary History of Art and the British Origins of Popular Art History (PDF). Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art. pp. 165 (pdf page 5), footnote #9 p178 (pdf page 18).

External links

The Fur Country at Project Gutenberg

Le Pays des Fourrures at Project Gutenberg (in French)
The Fur Country public domain audiobook at LibriVox
Le Pays des Fourrures public domain audiobook at LibriVox (in French)
105 illustrations for The Fur Country by Jules Férat and Alfred Quesnay de Beaurépaire

[1] Cf. Piero Gondolo della Riva: Bibliographie analytique de toutes les œuvres de Jules Verne. Tome I. Société Jules Verne. Pages 36-37. 1977.

[2] Von Lintel, Amy (2015). Nancy Bell's Elementary History of Art and the British Origins of Popular Art History (PDF). Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art. pp. 165 (pdf page 5), footnote #9 p178 (pdf page 18).

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