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Re: From the Earth to the Moon - Verne in Mexico?

From: Garmt de Vries <G.deVries~at~phys.uu.nl>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 23:20:36 +0200 (MET DST)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>
Cc: fhernandez~at~esmas.com.mx

> Verne was mostly an armchair explorer. If I recall correctly,
> this short story was one of his earliest stories. To my
> knowledge, he made just one trip to North America but some of
> the other listmembers will be more up on this than I.

Indeed, Verne never visited Mexico. He made one trip to the US, on the
Great-Eastern. On that occasion, he visited the Niagara Falls, New York I
believe, and not much else. By the way, he described the Niagara Falls in
many of his novels. We could make a list of places/events described in
Verne's novels from his own experience:

- The entire transatlantic trip of Une Ville flottante.
- Scotland (Rayon Vert, Indes noires and Voyage a reculons)
- Norway (Billet de loterie)
- The storm off the coast of Malta (Mathias Sandorf)
- Several places in France probably

But most of his descriptions of exotic places come from accounts of other
travellers.

Garmt.
Received on Sat 13 May 2000 - 00:24:41 IDT

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