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An Antarctic Mystery

Jules Verne · translated by Mrs. Cashel Hoey

This two-volume adventure serves as a continuation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.

"An Antarctic Mystery" by Jules Verne is a novel. This two-volume adventure serves as a continuation of Edgar Allan Poe's "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket.

This edition is the English translation by Mrs. Cashel Hoey.

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The Halbrane was a schooner of three hundred tons, and a fast sailer. On board there was a captain, a mate, or lieutenant, a boatswain, a cook, and eight sailors; in all twelve men, a sufficient number to work the ship. Solidly built, copper-bottomed, very manageable, well suited for navigation between the fortieth and sixtieth parallels of south latitude, the Halbrane was a credit to the ship-yards of Birkenhead.

All this I learned from Atkins, who adorned his narrative with praise and admiration of its theme. Captain Len Guy, of Liverpool, was three-fifths owner of the vessel, which he had commanded for nearly six years. He traded in the southern seas of Africa and America, going from one group of islands to another and from continent to continent. His ship’s company was but a dozen men, it is true, but she was used for the purposes of trade only; he would have required a more numerous crew, and all the implements, for taking seals and other amphibia. The Halbrane was not defenceless, however; on the contrary, she was heavily armed, and this was well, for those southern seas were not too safe; they were frequented at that period by pirates, and on approaching the isles the Halbrane was put into a condition to resist attack. Besides, the men always slept with one eye open.

One morning—it was the 27th of August—I was roused out of my bed by the rough voice of the innkeeper and the tremendous thumps he gave my door.

Contents

  1. 01Chapter II. The Schooner Halbrane
  2. 02The approach of the Halbrane
  3. 03Chapter III. Captain Len Guy
  4. 04Going aboard the Halbrane
  5. 05Chapter IV. From the Kerguelen Isles to Prince Edward Island
  6. 06Chapter V. Edgar Poe’s Romance
  7. 07Chapter VI. An Ocean Waif
  8. 08Chapter VII. Tristan D’Acunha
  9. 09Chapter VIII. Bound for the Falklands
  10. 10Cook’s route was effectually barred by ice-floes
  11. 11Chapter IX. Fitting out the Halbrane
  12. 12Chapter X. The Outset of the Enterprise
  13. 13Taking in sail under difficulties
  14. 14Chapter XI. From the Sandwich Islands to the Polar Circle
  15. 15“There, look there! That’s a fin-back!”
  16. 16Chapter XII. Between the Polar Circle and the Ice Wall
  17. 17Hunt to the rescue
  18. 18Chapter XIII. Along the Front of the Icebergs
  19. 19Four sailors at the oars, and one at the helm
  20. 20Chapter XIV. A Voice in a Dream
  21. 21Chapter XV. Bennet Islet
  22. 22Chapter XVI. Tsalal Island
  23. 23Hunt extended his enormous hand, holding a metal collar
  24. 24Chapter XVII. And Pym
  25. 25Dirk Peters shows the way
  26. 26The half-breed in the crow’s-nest
  27. 27Chapter XVIII. A Revelation
  28. 28Chapter XIX. Land
  29. 29The Halbrane fast in the iceberg
  30. 30Chapter XX. “Unmerciful Disaster"
  31. 31The Halbrane, staved in, broken up
  32. 32“I was afraid; I got away from him”
  33. 33Chapter XXI. Amid the Mists
  34. 34Chapter XXII. In Camp
  35. 35Chapter XXIII. Found at Last
  36. 36William Guy
  37. 37Chapter XXIV. Eleven Years in a Few Pages
  38. 38Chapter XXV. “We Were the First"
  39. 39An Antarctic Mystery
  40. 40Chapter XXVI. A Little Remnant
  41. 41The Paracuta

About this edition

Author
Jules Verne
Translator
Mrs. Cashel Hoey
Era
Modern (c. 1800–1945)
Reading level
Intermediate: some philosophy helps
Formats
EPUB, PDF
Length
262 pages
This edition
Modern Philosophers