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Le pays des fourrures
Le pays des fourrures
Le pays des fourrures
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Le pays des fourrures

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En 1859, le lieutenant Hobson travaille pour une grande compagnie qui fait le commerce des fourrures. Autour de la factorerie qu’il a fait construire sur les limites nord du continent américain, le Fort Espérance, la vie s’organise : chasses, expéditions des fourrures, explorations du territoire. La régularité des tâches est bientôt interrompue par la venue d’une exploratrice de renom : Mrs Barnett, et d’un astronome : Mr Black, chargé d’étudier une éclipse totale de soleil. Les souffrances et les dangers endurés par la petite communauté au cours d’un hiver rigoureux ne sont que le début d’une série d’aventures extraordinaires. A la suite d’un séisme sans gravité, la presqu’île qui porte le Fort Espérance, se détache du continent et se dirige irrésistiblement vers les mers du Sud…
LanguageFrançais
Release dateJan 1, 2014
Author

Jules Verne

Jules Gabriel Verne was born in the seaport of Nantes, France, in 1828 and was destined to follow his father into the legal profession. In Paris to train for the bar, he took more readily to literary life, befriending Alexander Dumas and Victor Hugo, and living by theatre managing and libretto-writing. His first science-based novel, Five Weeks in a Balloon, was issued by the influential publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel in 1862, and made him famous. Verne and Hetzel collaborated to write dozens more such adventures, including 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea in 1869 and Around the World in 80 Days in 1872. In later life Verne entered local politics at Amiens, where had had a home. He also kept a house in Paris, in the street now named Boulevard Jules Verne, and a beloved yacht, the Saint Michel, named after his son. He died in 1905.

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