Celebrated Travels and Travellers, Part 3. / The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century

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Jules Verne

GREAT EXPLORERS OF THE 19 TH CENTURY.

THE GREAT EXPLORERS

NINETEENTH CENTURY.

PART II.





CELEBRATED TRAVELS AND TRAVELLERS.

THE GREAT EXPLORERS

OF THE

NINETEENTH CENTURY.





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






Map of the work to be done
GravÉ par E. Morieu 23, r. de BrÉa Paris.
Map of the work which had to be done in the 19th Century.





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.



Ship sailing near icebergs



London:
SAMPSON LOW, MARSTON, SEARLE, & RIVINGTON,
CROWN BUILDINGS, 188, FLEET STREET.

1881.
[All rights reserved.]





TO

DR. G. G. GARDINER,

I Dedicate this Translation

WITH SINCERE AND GRATEFUL ESTEEM.


N. D'ANVERS.        

HENDON, Christmas, 1880.




TRANSLATOR'S NOTE.


In offering the present volume to the English public, the Translator wishes to thank the Rev. Andrew Carter for the very great assistance given by him in tracing all quotations from English, German, and other authors to the original sources, and for his untiring aid in the verification of disputed spellings, &c.





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