Record details

• ISBN: 1560258543
• ISBN: 9781560258544
• Physical Description: xxxii, 369 pages : illustrations, genealogical table, maps ; 22 cm
• Publisher: New York : Thunder's Mouth Press, [2006]
• Copyright: ©2006

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-328) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

Chapter 1 Island Adrift: 1828-35 1 -- Chapter 2 Chantenay Castaway: 1836-39 19 -- Chapter 3 Schoolboy Writer: 1840-46 37 -- Chapter 4 What Use Are Girls?: 1846-48 53 -- Chapter 5 Law Student in the Literary Salons: 1848-51 71 -- Chapter 6 Plays and Poverty: 1851-54 87 -- Chapter 7 Tribulations of a Frenchman in France: 1854-57 103 -- Chapter 8 Married, with Portfolio: 1857-59 121 -- Chapter 9 Destiny Draws up her Skirts: 1860-63 137 -- Chapter 10 Golden Years: 1863-66 153 -- Chapter 11 Whole New World: 1865-67 169 -- Chapter 12 By Land and Sea: 1867-69 183 -- Chapter 13 Gathering Clouds: 1868-71 201 -- Chapter 14 End of Exploration: 1871-72 217 -- Chapter 15 Last Paradise: 1872-79 229 -- Chapter 16 Freedom, Music, and the Sea: 1876-80 243 -- Chapter 17 Salvation through Work: 1879-83 255 -- Chapter 18 Home Front: 1882-90 269 -- Chapter 19 Heading for the Hundredth: 1890-1905 283 -- Epilogue: Communing with the Dead 297.

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Subject:

Verne, Jules, 1828-1905.
Authors, French > 19th century > Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.