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Re: VE itineraries

From: Walter J Miller <wjm2~at~nyu.edu>
Date: Mon, 09 Jul 2001 05:38:11 -0700
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>, drc~at~oceansonline.com, wjm2~at~nyu.edu

If it will help, I happen to have copy # 30 of Ron's Atlas, which I am
willing to lend to Sean. If that will get him started, maybe everybody
else's technical suggestions can get Ron's work back into print. Let me
know, Sean! Walter James Miller <wjm2~at~nyu.edu>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Sean Chamberlin" <scxq28~at~home.com>
Date: Friday, July 6, 2001 3:02 pm
Subject: Re: VE itineraries

> Ron wrote:
>
> >I might refer you to the maps in the book I published a few years
> >ago (just a small, privately-published thing just for my fellow
> >Verniana), "Extraordinary Voyages". It's an atlas of the routes
> >Verne's characters take in all of his books and the course of the
> >Nautilus is traced with meticulous detail (I was even able to locate
> >Crespo Island--usually assumed to be an invention of Verne's
> >imagination--in a few 19th century atlases). I don't have any other
> >copies of the book (there were only 50), but I could probably make
> >photocopies of the maps (unless there is someone who'd care to
> >loan you a copy of the atlas).
>
> Geez Ron, it's cruel to tease me that way (!)
>
> I certainly would love to see the maps, either photocopies or
> scanned images
> or book-by-loan. Maybe a library has one? Fifty copies of a book,
> is anyone
> willing to sell one? (hehe) Maybe we could talk your publisher
> into making
> more copies. I could force my students to buy them...
>
> I've become a 20K fanatic thanks to you guys...
>
> Sean
>
> W. Sean Chamberlin, PhD
> Online CoordinatoFullerton College
> drc~at~oceansonline.com
> www.oceansonline.com
>
>
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