Jules Verne's Scotland: In Fact and Fiction - Hardcover

Ian Thompson

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9781906817374: Jules Verne's Scotland: In Fact and Fiction

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ISBN 10: 1906817375 ISBN 13: 9781906817374

Publisher: Luath Press Ltd., 2011

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Jules Verne (1828-1905) is not generally associated with Scotland, but his two trips to the country so entranced him that he wrote a travelogue and set five of his novels there. As well as providing an account of his visits to Edinburgh, Glasgow, the Highlands and the Hebrides, this book analyses novels such as The Blockade Runners and The Green Ray to illuminate the French author's lifelong fascination with all things Scottish.

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'The reason Verne is still read by millions today is simply that he was one of the best storytellers who ever lived.' --Arthur C Clarke

Thomson's book tells the never-less-than-interesting story of one of Scotland s greatest fans --Newsnet Scotland

Thompson points to no less than 40 generally admirable Scottish characters throughout his stories. It s perhaps significant that, six years after that momentous first visit to Scotland, in Verne's debut novel, Five Weeks in a Balloon , one of the main characters is a typically idealised Scot

Verne's imagination may have taken him and us to the centre of the Earth and the bottom of the ocean; but it was to Scotland that it returned, over and over again. --The Scotsman

About the Author:

Ian Thompson graduated from the Universities of Durham and Indiana . He has held lecturing posts in the universities of Leeds, Southampton and Miami University Ohio before being appointed to the Chair of Geography at Glasgow University in 1976. He is now a Professor at the University of Glasgow, and a leading expert on Jules Verne. He was made an Honorary Life Fellow of La Societe de Geographie (Paris) in 2003 and promoted to the rank of Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques by the French Government in 2005. He was for many years President of the Alliance Francaise de Glasgow.

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