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A Strange Manuscript found in a Copper Cylinder. [A novel. By James De Mille.] With illustrations by G. Gaul

Deep under the ice of Antarctica, a world of lost tribesmen and dinosaurs thrives in subterranean tropics. Adam More, a British sailor shipwrecked on a return voyage, finds himself marooned among the Kosekin, a death-worshiping, darkness-loving tribe-whose highest honor is becoming a human sacrifice!

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  • "Deep under the ice of Antarctica, a world of lost tribesmen and dinosaurs thrives in subterranean tropics. Adam More, a British sailor shipwrecked on a return voyage, finds himself marooned among the Kosekin, a death-worshiping, darkness-loving tribe-whose highest honor is becoming a human sacrifice!"@en
  • "Deep under the ice of Antarctica, a world of lost tribesmen and dinosaurs thrives in subterranean tropics. Adam More, a British sailor shipwrecked on a return voyage, finds himself marooned among the Kosekin, a death-worshiping, darkness-loving tribe-whose highest honor is becoming a human sacrifice!"
  • "After four sailors uncover a copper cylinder containing a manuscript written by the adventurer Adam More, they read the contents out loud to each other and discover his journey to a lost world that survives at the foot of a volcano."
  • ""Drifting on a sailing boat off the Canary Islands, four British gentlemen take turns reading a manuscript that they find inside a copper cylinder discovered floating in the Atlantic Ocean. The manuscript recounts Adam More's adventures after being lost at sea during an Antarctic voyage in 1844 and his life with the Kosekin, a lost civilization living at the South Pole. The values of the Kosekin are opposed to the civilized norm--they love death, abjection, and poverty. Their society may be well suited to their particular evolution, but it is profoundly disconcerting to the narrator, and it is radically contentious to the Victorian gentlemen who read and debate More's account. This Broadview edition of James De Mille's classic recreates the format of the posthumous 1888 Harper's Weekly serial, including 18 original illustrations by Gilbert Gaul. The appendices allow the novel to be seen in terms of other satirical and scientific romance, Antarctic exploration, and contemporary geology. The introduction and notes tap into recent scholarship to bring to life De Mille's genre innovations and his use of Orientalist and colonialist discourses."--Publisher's website."
  • "Originally published in 1888, A Strange Manuscript Found In a Copper Cylinder by James De Mille, arguably the first Canadian science fiction novel ever published, is resurrected in a collaboration between Stone Fox Publishing and Bakka Books."@en

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  • "Ressources Internet"
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