From Publishers Weekly
The Mighty Orinoco (1898), Jules Verne's novel of scientific adventure along Venezuela's Orinoco River, appears in its first English translation, along with an introduction and notes by Walter James Miller. Translated by Stanford L. Luce and edited by Arthur B. Evans, the text includes all the illustrations from the original French edition.
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The first English edition of this classic Verne adventure - with a unique feminist twist. Written in 1898 and part of Jules Verne's famous series "Voyages Extraordinaires", "The Mighty Orinoco" tells the story of a young man's search for his father along the then-uncharted Orinoco River of Venezuela. The text contains all the ingredients of a classic Verne scientific adventure tale - exploration and discovery, humor and drama, dastardly villains and intrepid heroes, and a host of near-fatal encounters with crocodiles, jungle fever, Indians, and outlaws - all set in a wonderfully exotic locale. This Wesleyan edition features notes and a critical introduction by renowned Verne scholar Walter James Miller as well as reproductions of all the illustrations from the original French edition.
