Travel Scholarships. Jules Verne
Travel Scholarships
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JULES VERNE
Travel Scholarships
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Translated by TERI J. HERNÁNDEZ
Edited by ARTHUR B. EVANS
Introduction by VOLKER DEHS
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS
Middletown, Connecticut
Wesleyan University Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Verne, Jules, 1828–1905.
[Bourses de voyage. English]
Travel scholarships / Jules Verne ; translated by Teri J. Hernández ; edited by Arthur B. Evans ; introduction by Volker Dehs.
pages cm
Includes bibliographical references.
ISBN 978-0-8195-6512-9 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8195-7362-9 (ebook)
1. Science fiction. I. Hernández, Teri J., translator. II. Evans, Arthur B., editor.
III. Title.
PQ2469.B613 2013
843′.8—dc23 2012044386
5 4 3 2 1
Contents
Preface, ix
Introduction, xiii
Travel Scholarships
by Jules Verne
5 A Daring Move, 43
7 The Three-Masted Schooner Alert, 63
8 On Board, 73
10 A Breeze from the Northeast, 95
11 At Sea, 106
13 The Aviso Essex, 124
14 Saint Thomas and Saint Croix, 135
15 Saint Martin and Saint Barthélemy, 149
1 Antigua, 167
2 Guadeloupe, 178
3 Dominica, 191
4 Martinique, 205
5 Saint Lucia, 220
6 Barbados, 233
8 Night Comes, 257
9 Will Mitz, 268
10 Fogbound, 275
11 Masters on Board, 285
12 Three Days, 295
13 Into the Unknown, 307
14 Journey’s End, 318
Notes, 325
Bibliography, 363
Jules Gabriel Verne: A Biography, 395
Preface
This first English edition of Jules Verne’s Travel Scholarships constitutes an important milestone both in Verne studies and in Wesleyan University Press’s “Early Classics of Science Fiction” book series. It is the last Verne novel for which there has existed no English translation; Anglophone aficionados of Verne will finally to be able to read this long-neglected work. When the Early Classics of Science Fiction series was established in 2000, it had three main goals: to provide high-quality critical editions of important early works of science fiction (SF) from around the world, to publish critical works that focus