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The Mighty Orinoco by Evans, Arthur B.;Luce, Stanford;Verne, Jules is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Mighty Orinoco about?
First English edition of a classic Verne adventure, with a unique feminist twist. Jules Verne (1828-1905) was the first author to popularize the literary genre of science fiction. Written in 1898 and part of the author's famous series Voyages Extraordinaires, The Mighty Orinoco tells the story of a young man's search for his father along the then-uncharted Orinoco River of Venezuela. The text contains all the ingredients of a classic Verne scientific-adventure tale: exploration and discovery, humor and drama, dastardly villains and intrepid heroes, and a host of near-fatal encounters with crocodiles, jungle fever, Indians and outlaws — all set in a wonderfully exotic locale. The Mighty Orinoco also includes a unique twist that will appeal to feminists — readers will need to discover it for themselves. This Wesleyan edition features notes, and a critical introduction by renowned Verne scholar Walter James Miller, as well as reproductions of the illustrations from the original French edition. CONTRIBUTORS: Walter James Miller, Stanford Luce, Arthur B. Evans.
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- Author
- Evans, Arthur B.;Luce, Stanford;Verne, Jules
- Publisher
- Wesleyan University Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780819565112
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Adventure, Literary Criticism, Fiction
- Rating
- 3.69 / 5 (298 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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