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The Barsac Mission (French: L'Étonnante Aventure de la Mission Barsac) is a novel attributed to Jules Verne and written (with inspiration from two unfinished Verne manuscripts) by his son Michel Verne. First serialized in 1914, it was published in book form in 1919. An English adaptation by I.O. Evans was published in 1960 in two volumes, Into the Niger Bend and The City in the Sahara. It revolves around a hidden city, called in English "Blackland," in the Sahara Desert. This edition includes the original introduction by translator I.O. Evans, a new introduction by literary scholar Darrell…mehr

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The Barsac Mission (French: L'Étonnante Aventure de la Mission Barsac) is a novel attributed to Jules Verne and written (with inspiration from two unfinished Verne manuscripts) by his son Michel Verne. First serialized in 1914, it was published in book form in 1919. An English adaptation by I.O. Evans was published in 1960 in two volumes, Into the Niger Bend and The City in the Sahara. It revolves around a hidden city, called in English "Blackland," in the Sahara Desert. This edition includes the original introduction by translator I.O. Evans, a new introduction by literary scholar Darrell Schweitzer, and a new frontispiece portrait of Jules Verne by John Betancourt.
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Jules Verne (1828-1905) Jules Verne was a French author and is known for his fictions of adventure such as Journey to the Center of the Earth, Around the World in Eighty Days, and Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea. Verne anticipated the skyscraper, the submarine, and the airplane, many other inventions, and he is regarded as one of the fathers of science fiction. Legendary science fiction and adventure author Jules Verne is remembered for his fascinating stories of travel and excitement. He wrote many fantasy stories and his combination of realism and romanticism exercised a lasting influence on many writers such as Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Jean-Paul Sartre. A pioneer of the science-fiction genre, Jules Verne, a French author, is known for his writings about cosmic, atmospheric and underwater travel which runs our imagination ahead of its time.