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

From: Davor Sisovic <davor.sisovic~at~pu.tel.hr>
Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 00:50:01 +0200
To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>

> 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
>

Speaking about this, what about Gibraltar? He had to pass through Gibraltar
a couple of times, including Meditereanean cruises (last was at 1884).
There's known that he visited Portugal during 1884. cruise, but had he some
experiences from the "land" of Gibraltar, not only with seeing it from the
sea? Gibraltar was also one of places of "Mathias Sandorf", and a short
story "Gil-Braltar" happens there, maybe some other novel or story also
includes it.

> But most of his descriptions of exotic places come from accounts of other
> travellers.
> Garmt.
>
And this could be a good list too, starting from Charles Yriarte (Mathias
Sandorf) and Elisee Reclus (Carpatian Castle), but was this last one also a
traveller, or just a publisher of that what-was-the-name encyclopedia (or
Atlas)?

Davor Sisovic
davor.sisovic~at~pu.tel.hr
http://www.ice.hr/davors/
Received on Sat 13 May 2000 - 01:56:27 IDT

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