Last chance to download articles from my 1400-page Jules Verne website.
John Lamb
Hi Everyone,
I will be taking my Jules Verne website down in a few weeks which at 45 articles, 1400 pages and 5,000 colour illustrations is certainly the biggest on the internet. I am now putting my findings re Verne into print and associated journal articles.
Please feel free to download any of the articles before they go offline – they are designed to be easily read, even off a mobile phone. Please remember the findings are copyright, feel free to use them but please reference me in.
Birkenhead is the initial setting two of Verne’s novels (The Adventures of Captain Hatteras and A Floating City), and is the town that built six of his fictional vessels in the Voyages Extraordinaires.
The following articles may be of particular interest.
1. 60 links between the Birkenhead built Confederate warship CSS Alabama and the (mainly) Birkenhead built Nautilus in Verne’s 1870 novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.
31.-Twenty-Thousand-Leagues-Under-the-Sea-compressed.pdf
2. 100 links between the topography of Birkenhead and the Wirral Peninsula and Jules Verne’s sequel novel The Mysterious Island (including 20 of Verne’s illustrations based on Birkenhead). Birkenhead’s Bidston Lighthouse is the literary template for volcano Mount Franklin. The support of Wirral Council and the Birkenhead Member of Parliament is included in these findings.
6.-Jules-Verne-Sets-His-Classic-Novel-The-Mysterious-Island-in-Birkenhead..pdf
3. 30 links between the topography of Birkenhead, the River Mersey and Liverpool to Verne’s Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864). Whereby Bidston Observatory and Lighthouse, Birkenhead are the literary templates for the Snaefells volcano. This includes the derivation of the name Arne Saknussemm as being a reference to Raphael Semmes, Captain of the Birkenhead built CSS Alabama.
4. 30 links between Birkenhead, Wirral and Verne’s The Floating Island (1895) whereby Bidston Observatory and Lighthouse and Birkenhead’s One o’clock gun are the literary template for the town of Milliard’s Observatory and Lighthouse and One o’clock gun.
5.-Jules-Verne-sets-his-novel-The-Floating-Island-1895-in-Birkenhead..pdf
5. Major new links between the Birkenhead built CSS Alabama, Raphael Semmes, the Susquehanna which picks up the lunar module in Verne’s Around the Moon (1869) and the Apollo 11 Moon landings.
35.-The-Last-Soul-of-Captain-Nemo.pdf
6. 40 links between Birkenhead and Robert Louis Stevenson’s Treasure Island (1881) whereby Birkenhead’s Bidston Windmill, Observatory and Lighthouse are the literary template for the three tall trees at the end of the novel and Bidston Observatory on Birkenhead’s Bidston Hill gives its name to Spy-glass Hill in the novel.
40.-Robert-Louis-Stevenson-sets-his-classic-novel-Treasure-Island-in-Birkenhead_compressed.pdf
Remember Stevenson reviewed Mysterious Island and Verne reviewed Treasure Island and this was a subject of a previous posting.
I will give further references to the above as they appear in printed journals
Best John Lamb
Valeria Smolianinova
Jules Verne completed his earthly journey 120 years ago.
20 years ago, many of us were in Amiens on this day.
And me too. It was unforgettable…
Garmt de Vries-Uiterweerd
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Here are my pictures from that day…
The first one here features Zvi Har’El just outside the cemetery gate,
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Yes, thanks for the photos, Dennis. They stirred up all manner of happy memories.
Whew. Twenty years! Time has *flown*.
Terry Harpold
Associate Professor of English
Director, Imagining Climate Change
Assistant Director, Astraeus Space Institute
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