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Gibraltar

From: Garmt de Vries <G.deVries~at~phys.uu.nl>
Date: Sat, 13 May 2000 12:16:05 +0200 (MET DST)
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On Fri, 12 May 2000, Davor Sisovic wrote:

> 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.

In many other stories, Verne makes fun of the English tenacity to keep
Gibraltar, eg Maitre Antifer, Journaliste en 2889, Servadac... It's like
the green ray, which he mentioned in a couple of other novels, besides Le
Rayon-Vert itself.

garmt.
Received on Sat 13 May 2000 - 13:19:13 IDT

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