Travel Scholarships. Jules Verne

      

      Travel Scholarships

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      JULES VERNE

       Travel Scholarships

       _________________________

      Translated by TERI J. HERNÁNDEZ

      Edited by ARTHUR B. EVANS

      Introduction by VOLKER DEHS

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      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

      Verne, Jules, 1828–1905.

      [Bourses de voyage. English]

      Travel scholarships / Jules Verne ; translated by Teri J. Hernández ; edited by Arthur B. Evans ; introduction by Volker Dehs.

      pages cm

      Includes bibliographical references.

      ISBN 978-0-8195-6512-9 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8195-7362-9 (ebook)

      1. Science fiction. I. Hernández, Teri J., translator. II. Evans, Arthur B., editor.

      III. Title.

      PQ2469.B613 2013

      843′.8—dc23 2012044386

      5 4 3 2 1

      Contents

      Preface, ix

      Introduction, xiii

       Travel Scholarships

      by Jules Verne

       PART I

      1 The Competition, 3

      2 Mrs. Seymour’s Ideas, 11

      3 Mr. and Mrs. Patterson, 22

      4 The Blue Fox Tavern, 33

      5 A Daring Move, 43

      6 Masters of the Ship, 53

      7 The Three-Masted Schooner Alert, 63

      8 On Board, 73

      9 In Full View from Land, 85

      10 A Breeze from the Northeast, 95

      11 At Sea, 106

      12 Crossing the Atlantic, 117

      13 The Aviso Essex, 124

      14 Saint Thomas and Saint Croix, 135

      15 Saint Martin and Saint Barthélemy, 149

       PART II

      1 Antigua, 167

      2 Guadeloupe, 178

      3 Dominica, 191

      4 Martinique, 205

      5 Saint Lucia, 220

      6 Barbados, 233

      7 Starting the Crossing, 248

      8 Night Comes, 257

      9 Will Mitz, 268

      10 Fogbound, 275

      11 Masters on Board, 285

      12 Three Days, 295

      13 Into the Unknown, 307

      14 Journey’s End, 318

      Notes, 325

      Bibliography, 363

      Jules Gabriel Verne: A Biography, 395

      About the Contributors, 403

       Preface

      This first English edition of Jules Verne’s Travel Scholarships constitutes an important milestone both in Verne studies and in Wesleyan University Press’s “Early Classics of Science Fiction” book series. It is the last Verne novel for which there has existed no English translation; Anglophone aficionados of Verne will finally to be able to read this long-neglected work. When the Early Classics of Science Fiction series was established in 2000, it had three main goals: to provide high-quality critical editions of important early works of science fiction (SF) from around the world, to publish critical works that focus