An Antarctic Mystery Annotated

Download or read book An Antarctic Mystery written by An Antarctic Mystery and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-13 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Antarctic Mystery (French: Le Sphinx des glaces, The Sphinx of the Ice Fields) is a two-volume novel by Jules Verne. Written in 1897, it is a response to Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. It follows the adventures of the narrator and his journey from the Kerguelen Islands aboard Halbrane.Neither Poe nor Verne had actually visited the remote Kerguelen Islands, located in the south Indian Ocean,[1] but their works are some of the few literary (as opposed to exploratory) references to the archipelago.