Travels and Travellers, by Jules Verne

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Title: Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century

Author: Jules Verne

Illustrator: Léon Benett

Translator: N. D'Anvers

Release Date: September 19, 2008 [EBook #26658]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1

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CELEBRATED TRAVELS AND TRAVELLERS. THE GREAT EXPLORERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

LONDON: GILBERT AND RIVINGTON, PRINTERS, ST. JOHN'S SQUARE.

[Frontispiece: Map of the work which had to be done in the 19th Century. Gravé par E. Morieu 23, r. de Bréa Paris.]

CELEBRATED TRAVELS AND TRAVELLERS. THE GREAT EXPLORERS OF THE NINETEENTH CENTURY.

BY JULES VERNE.

TRANSLATED BY N. D'ANVERS, AUTHOR OF "HEROES OF NORTH AFRICAN DISCOVERY," "HEROES OF SOUTH AFRICAN DISCOVERY," ETC.

WITH 51 ORIGINAL DRAWINGS BY LÉON BENETT, AND 57 FAC-SIMILES FROM EARLY MSS. AND MAPS BY MATTHIS AND MORIEU.

[Illustration: Ship sailing near icebergs.]

London: SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGT

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