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An Antarctic Mystery follows Mr. Jeorling, a wealthy American naturalist whose research has led him to the remote Kerguelen Islands, located in the southern Indian Ocean. Jeorling begins his adventure on the Halbrane after being admitted aboard by the reluctant captain Len Guy, who believes the events in The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym to be true. In that novel, Pym persuades Len Guy’s brother, William Guy, to lead a voyage to the Antarctic. But the expedition ends in failure when William Guy, his crew, and his ship, the Jane, disappear under mysterious circumstances. Captain Len Guy convinces Jeorling to aid in the search for his brother, and the two embark on an expedition south to the Antarctic in search of the previous voyage’s survivors.
Despite the fact that Jules Verne’s work was published over fifty years after Pym, the events in the novel take place only one year after the disappearance of the Jane.
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An Antarctic Mystery (Large Print Edition)
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December 1999, Yestermorrow Inc
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Mr. Jeorling, desperate to leave the Kerguelen Islands and return to his home town in Connecticut, insists on leaving with the first ship that arrives to the island. Although not initially favorable to the idea, Captain Len Guy of the Halbrane eventually agrees to transport Mr. Jeorling to Tristan D'Cunha. On the voyage, the captain confides to Mr. Jeorling that his brother, Captain William Guy, was the captain of the Jane Guy—the very ship that was supposedly fiction in Edgar Allan Poe's The Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym! As the voyage continues, Captain Len Guy becomes determined to sail the Southern Seas to search for and save his brother—if he is still alive. Beyond Tsalal Island, mutiny ferments in the ranks of the men, and the hazards of the southern seas confront the crew constantly. Soon it becomes clear, their own lives are at risk. In a marriage of survival and discovery, the crew unexpectedly discovers something else—the fate of the Jane Guy and her crew, but will they live to tell about it?
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