My article in the International Review of Science Fiction - the role of Birkenhead's Bidston Hill in three Verne novels - Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), The Mysterious Island (1874) and The Propeller Island (1895)

[John Lamb]

Hello everyone,

Jules Verne uses Bidston Hill, Birkenhead as a 'literary template' to drive three of his novels. 

please give this article your deepest consideration, it is about a 15 minute read. 

I have also added one extra novel to the main article   which also uses Bidston Hill, Birkenhead as a literary template to drive the plot of a novel...but it it is not written by Jules Verne.

To those of you who maintain that this is all 'coincidence' then I would look at the section on Journey to the Centre of the Earth to see the real genius of Verne. To those of you who say I am using the wrong translations, I am not.

Anyway I hope you enjoy reading the articles, I only hope that out of 150 members, just one of you will say I might be on to something and enjoy the hereto hidden genius of Jules Verne. 

Please recommend to others if this is of interest to you and any public messages of support for my research would be greatly appreciated. 

I hope you enjoy the article. Please remember I selected Bidston Hill, Birkenhead as merely one sample of over 60 Birkenhead and Wirral landmarks used by Verne in his novels and the only one represented across all four novels. 

Best wishes John Lamb

p.s sorry about the print quality as I had to compress a pdf to get it through, thankfully the photographs (the ultimate proof) are still pretty clear.