![]() ![]() ~Library Journal, Classic Returns section When it comes to vintage sf, Jules Rules!" This first English translation also includes numerous illustrations, textual notes, and other nice extras. Writing at a time when many of the world's top powers were busy building canals to link major bodies of water, Verne goes a step further and weaves a tale of a sea being created in the Sahara desert. "This 1904 volume capped Verne's remarkable career (he died in 1905). ![]() Evans, as well as reproductions of the illustrations from the original French edition. This Wesleyan edition features notes, appendices and an introduction by Verne scholar Arthur B. The ensuing struggle is finally resolved only by a cataclysmic natural event. The proposed sea threatens the nomadic way of life of those Islamic tribes living on the site, and they declare war. The story raises a host of concerns - environmental, cultural, and political. Instead of linking two seas, as existing canals (the Suez and the Panama) did, Verne proposed a canal that would create a sea in the heart of the Sahara Desert. Jules Verne, celebrated French author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in 80 Days, wrote over 60 novels collected in the popular series "Voyages Extraordinaires." A handful of these have never been translated into English, including Invasion of the Sea, written in 1904 when large-scale canal digging was very much a part of the political, economic, and military strategy of the world's imperial powers. ![]() First English edition of a classic Verne novel. ![]()
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