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From: <MARGOT~at~vnet.ibm.com>
Date: Fri, 6 Mar 98 08:24:11 EST
To: JVF~at~math.technion.ac.il

Bonjour, Good Morning or Evening, Guten Tag, Muito Bom Dia...

Jules Verne never was in Iceland, but its description at the beginning
of "Voyage au centre de la terre" is very accurate. I can confirm the
fact mentioned by Pierre and cited by Gilles. The description of the
landscape between Reykjavik and the Snaeffels is realistic and I could
follow the text during the journey I did to the Snaeffels.

The question is : from which source, which description JV got such a
good and accurate description ?

This question arises for the majority of the novels and is not solved
for many of them. And don't believe that every landscape description
by JV is always accurate because of "Journey to the Center of the
Earth"'s was. For example, in "Master of the World", the Great Eyry is
in reality the Pilot Mountain in North Carolina, on the border with
Virginia. Pilot Moiuntain is a State Park located near a town called
Mt. Airy and looks exactly like the Great Eyry of JV, Unfortunately
it's located around 100 miles East of Morganton.

It's one of the "vernian" tasks to discover the "geographical" sources
of JV's novels, mainly by reading collections of the french exploration
or geographical magazines from the 19th century, like "Le Journal des
Voyages", etc.

Some of the sources have been detected, but we are still waiting for
some Sherlock Holmes in this area.

        Regards, Freundliche Gruesse, meilleures salutations,

        Jean-Michel Margot
                             Internet : MARGOT~at~VNET.IBM.COM
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Received on Fri 06 Mar 1998 - 15:24:24 IST

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