Invasion of the sea /
First English edition of a classic Verne novel. Describes the exploits of Berber nomads and European travelers in Saharan Africa. The European characters arrive to study the feasibility of flooding a low-lying region of the Sahara desert to create an inland sea and open up the interior of Northern A...
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| Other Authors: | , |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | Translated from the French. |
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Middletown, Conn. :
Wesleyan University Press,
©2001.
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| Series: | Wesleyan early classics of science fiction series.
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| Summary: | First English edition of a classic Verne novel. Describes the exploits of Berber nomads and European travelers in Saharan Africa. The European characters arrive to study the feasibility of flooding a low-lying region of the Sahara desert to create an inland sea and open up the interior of Northern Africa to trade. In the end, however, the protagonists' pride in humanity's potential to control and reshape the world is humbled by a cataclysmic earthquake which results in the natural formation of just such a sea. |
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| Physical Description: | xx, 258 pages : illustrations, map ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-250). |
| ISBN: | 0819564656 9780819564658 081956558X 9780819565587 0819565458 9780819565457 |