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Title: An Antarctic Mystery

Author: Jules Verne

Translator: Frances Cashel Hoey

Release date: November 1, 2003 [eBook #10339]
Most recently updated: October 28, 2024

Language: English

Credits: Norman Wolcott

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[ Redactor’s Note: An Antarctic Mystery (Number V046 in the T&M numerical listing of Verne’s works) is a translation of Le Sphinx de Glaces (1897) translated by Mrs. Cashel Hoey who also translated other Verne works.]

The Tasman to the rescue.
The Tasman to the rescue.

AN
ANTARCTIC MYSTERY

BY

JULES  VERNE

TRANSLATED BY MRS. CASHEL HOEY

[Illustration]

ILLUSTRATED

1899

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.
 
The Tasman to the rescue
The approach of the Halbrane
Going aboard the Halbrane
Cook’s route was effectually barred by ice-floes
Taking in sail under difficulties
“There, look there! That’s a fin-back!”
Hunt to the rescue
Four sailors at the oars, and one at the helm
Hunt extended his enormous hand, holding a metal collar
Dirk Peters shows the way
The half-breed in the crow’s-nest
The Halbrane fast in the iceberg
The Halbrane, staved in, broken up
“I was afraid; I got away from him”
William Guy
An Antarctic Mystery
The Paracuta
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
 
Chapter I. The Kerguelen Islands.
Chapter II. The Schooner Halbrane
Chapter III. Captain Len Guy
Chapter IV. From the Kerguelen Isles to Prince Edward Island
Chapter V. Edgar Poe’s Romance
Chapter VI. An Ocean Waif
Chapter VII. Tristan D’Acunha
Chapter VIII. Bound for the Falklands
Chapter IX. Fitting out the Halbrane
Chapter X. The Outset of the Enterprise
Chapter XI. From the Sandwich Islands to the Polar Circle
Chapter XII. Between the Polar Circle and the Ice Wall
Chapter XIII. Along the Front of the Icebergs
Chapter XIV. A Voice in a Dream
Chapter XV. Bennet Islet
Chapter XVI. Tsalal Island
Chapter XVII. And Pym
Chapter XVIII. A Revelation
Chapter XIX. Land
Chapter XX. “Unmerciful Disaster"
Chapter XXI. Amid the Mists
Chapter XXII. In Camp
Chapter XXIII. Found at Last
Chapter XXIV. Eleven Years in a Few Pages
Chapter XXV. “We Were the First"
Chapter XXVI. A Little Remnant

AN ANTARCTIC MYSTERY

(Also called THE SPHINX OF THE ICE FIELDS)