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Travels and Travellers, by Jules Verne
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Title: Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part 2. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century
Author: Jules Verne
Illustrator: Paul Philippoteaux Léon Benett Matthis
Release Date: June 14, 2008 [EBook #25784]
Language: English
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CELEBRATED TRAVELS AND TRAVELLERS.
THE GREAT NAVIGATORS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
LONDON: GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS, ST. JOHN'S SQUARE.
[Frontispiece: Hoisting the signals for triangulation.]
CELEBRATED TRAVELS AND TRAVELLERS. THE GREAT NAVIGATORS OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
BY JULES VERNE.
WITH 96 ILLUSTRATIONS BY PHILIPPOTEAUX, BENETT, AND MATTHIS, AND 20 MAPS BY MATTHIS AND MORIEU.
[Illustration: TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH.]
London: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON, CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET. 1880.
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PUBLISHERS' NOTE.
This volume forms the second of three volumes under the general title of C