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One of the great “first novels” in world literature is now available in a complete, accurate English translation. Prepared by two of America’s leading Verne scholars, Frederick Paul Walter and Arthur B. Evans, this edition honors not only Verne’s farseeing science, but also his zest, style, and storytelling brilliance. Initially published in 1863, Five Weeks in a Balloon was the first novel in what would become the author’s Extraordinary Voyages series. It tells the tale of a 4,000-mile balloon trip over the mysterious continent of Africa, a trip that wouldn’t actually take place until well into the next century. Fusing adventure, comedy, and science fiction, Five Weeks has all the key ingredients of classic Verne: sly humor and cheeky characters, an innovative scientific invention, a tangled plot that’s full of suspense and surprise, and visions of an unknown realm. As part of the Early Classics of Science Fiction series, this critical edition features extensive notes, all the illustrations from the original French edition, and a complete Verne biography and bibliography. Five Weeks in a Balloon will be a prized addition to libraries and science fiction reading lists, and a must-read for Verne fans and steampunk connoisseurs.

This classic mind-shattering tale, which \"ranks high among the horror stories of the English language,\" plunges into the darkness of the Cthulhu mythos ( Time ).In the uncharted wastes of Antarctica, an exploration party from Miskatonic University encounters a gory sight when they discover their advance team's camp has been destroyed and its.

This book challenges the common assumption that little or nothing of scientific value was achieved during the Burke and Wills expedition. The Royal Society of Victoria initiated the Victorian Exploring Expedition as a serious scientific exploration of hitherto unexplored regions of inland and northern Australia. Members of the expedition were issued with detailed instructions on scientific measurements and observations to be carried out, covering about a dozen areas of science. The tragic ending of the expedition meant that most of the results of the scientific investigations were not reported or published. Burke and Wills: The Scientific Legacy of the Victorian Exploring Expedition rectifies this historic omission. It includes the original instructions as well as numerous paintings and drawings, documents the actual science undertaken as recorded in notebooks and diaries, and analyses the outcomes. It reveals for the first time the true extent and limits of the scientific achievements of both the Burke and Wills expedition and the various relief expeditions which followed. Importantly, this new book has led to a re-appraisal of the shortcomings and the successes of the journey. It will be a compelling read for all those interested in the history of exploration, science and natural history, as well as Australian history and heritage.

Criticism about the neo-Victorian novel - a genre of historical fiction that re-imagines aspects of the Victorian world from present-day perspectives - has expanded rapidly in the last fifteen years but given little attention to the engagement between science and religion. Of great interest to Victorians, this subject often appears in neo-Victorian novels including those by such well-known authors as John Fowles, A. S. Byatt, Graham Swift, and Mathew Kneale. This book discusses novels in which nineteenth-century science, including geology, paleontology, and evolutionary theory, interacts with religion through accommodations, conflicts, and crises of faith. In general, these texts abandon conventional religion but retain the ethical connectedness and celebration of life associated with spirituality at its best. Registering the growth of nineteenth-century secularism and drawing on aspects of the romantic tradition and ecological thinking, they honor the natural world without imagining that it exists for humans or functions in reference to human values. In particular, they enact a form of wonderment: the capacity of the mind to make sense of, creatively adapt, and enjoy the world out of which it has evolved - in short, to endow it with meaning. Protagonists who come to experience reality in this expansive way release themselves from self-anxiety and alienation. In this book, Glendening shows how, by intermixing past and present, fact and fiction, neo-Victorian narratives, with a few instructive exceptions, manifest this pattern.

Web publishing and marketing might put more science into fiction and attract new readers. V. good? Is the world ready for a Bridget Jones' Diary for scientists? Publishers Delacorte Press seem to think so: the cover of A Version of the Truth , by Jennifer Kaufman and Karen Mack, has the authentic 'chick lit' feel of the best-selling journal. It's reviewed in Books & Arts this week, together with two more fact-oriented examples of the emerging 'science-as-fiction' genre.

Early Antarctic literature, unsurprisingly, was dominated by male writers, including Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Edgar Allan Poe, James Fenimore Cooper, and Jules Verne, and literary analyses of Antarctic writing have focused on these author's contributions. While there is a smattering of Antarctic-based fiction by women from the first half of the twentieth century, it is limited to occasional poems inspired by expeditions and fairly forgettable popular novels and short stories. Here, Leane briefly outlines three stages in Antarctic literature as it relates to the representation of women.

Mutations of Empire Yamashita's Through the Arc revisits the speculative space of the Amazon and summons several extraordinary, if not extraterrestrial, subjects to the site, including Kazumasa Ishimaru, the Japanese ex-rail inspector from whose cranial orbit a gyrating, rubberized sphere narrates the account; Batista and Tania Aparecida Djapan, who manage a worldwide, fortune-telling, pigeon courier service; Mané Pena, a healer indigenous to the Amazon Valley who cures people of their afflictions and ailments using a magical feather; Chico Paco, a religious pilgrim turned radio evangelist whose love for his disabled neighbor Gilberto motivates his faith; and J. B. Tweep, a three-armed entrepreneur from the US who becomes enamored not only with corporate expansion in Brazil but also with Michelle Mabelle, a triple-breasted French ornithologist.

In the high country of the northern Wasatch Mountains, lies what is left of one of the West's largest ranches. Deseret Live Stock Company was reputed at various times to be the largest private landholder in Utah and the single biggest producer of wool in the world. The ranch began as a sheep operation, but as it found success, it also ran cattle. Incorporated in the 1890s by a number of northern Utah ranchers who pooled their resources, the company was at the height of successful operations in the mid-twentieth century when a young Dean Frischknecht, bearing a recent degree in animal science, landed the job of sheep foreman. In his memoir he recounts in detail how Deseret managed huge herds of livestock, vast lands, and rich wildlife and recalls through lively anecdotes how stockmen and their families lived and worked in the Wasatch Mountains and Skull Valley's desert wintering grounds.

Two ecologists and three assistants from Illinois went to the Australian outback to study finches. However, the research expedition turned sour. Differing views on the expedition's problems reflect tensions that can arise when far from. The book \"Blackhearts: Ecology in Oubback Australia\" by one of the professors, Richard Symanski, offers a rare warts-and-all ethnography of scientists at work in the field, a cautionary tale of professor who found their team of research assistants unprepared, uninterested and lazy.