Get your Verne On

The book, then the movie of the same title, Journey to the Center of the Earth I was hooked on Jules Verne and his stories. Lately his books have been coming back into print. Most recently, Magellania, a story of a man whose motto is Neither God nor master, he has shunned Western civilisation to live on an island where it gets complicated by immigrants who want in on his utopia. This is the first time the book has been published, in it's original form, in English. The Modern Library also recently published The Mysterious Island which is based on the Selkirk of Selkirk's Island who was the model for Robinson Crusoe. Many others have come back into print recently as well; Adventures in the Land of the Behemoth, Dropped from the Clouds, The Chase of the Golden Meteor and Paris in the Twentieth Century.

permalink Ω 24 February 2002, Helsinki