  CHAPTER III A BALL, A SNOWSTORM, AND A SNOWBALL CHAPTER IV ENCOUNTER BETWEEN A HIGH HORSE AND A HOBBY CHAPTER V BEGINS WITH ANCIENT HISTORY AND ENDS WITH AN OLD STORY CHAPTER VI FATE IN A LAURELLED POST-CHAISE CHAPTER VII LOVE AND AN OLD MAID CHAPTER VIII CORPORAL ZEALLY INTERVENES CHAPTER XII GENERAL ROCHAMBEAU TELLS A STORY; AND THE TING-TANG RINGS FOR THE LAST TIME [Redactor's Note: Topsy Turvy (Number V035 in the T&M numerical listing of Verne's works) is a translation of Sans dessus dessous (1889) . This anonymous translation was first published by J. G. Ogilvie (New York, 1890). We meet our old friends Barbicane and J.T. Maston from "Earth to the Moon" who now give us their own approach to the topic of "global warming". Although they are searching for coal and not oil, readers will find that the auction of the Arctic energy reserves has a definite 21st century ring. We are indebted to Mr. Mark Eccles of Columbia, MD for loaning his rare and disintegrating copy of this 1890 work.The text was reprinted in an Ace paperback (D-434) in the late 1950's with the title "The Purchase of the North Pole". There is another edition published by Sampson & Low (U.K.,1890) also entitled "The Purchase of the North Pole". The Ogilvie book is more faithful to the structure of the french-the S&L has 20 chapters instead of 21 and omits part of 21, but the sense may be sometimes incorrect-the last sentence of 20 reads "But now, after having read the article and being unable to understand it without any help, he began to feel sorry and feel better" where the word able might be supposed. Both editions leave out some parts of sentences and paragraphs, the Ogilvie probably worse in this regard. There is one equation in the book which is represented as a graphic. A Table of Contents has been added for user convenience. This text contains 42,000 words. (NMW)]
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