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RE: VE itineraries

From: Jean-Michel Margot <jmmargot~at~mindspring.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 05:03:01 -0400
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>

At 05:22 PM 7/10/01 -0400, you wrote:
> As an observer, I've been interested in the mapping project and woudl
>suport the same -perhaps at some point, hard copies could be available?
>I can't print from the computer as yet. Anyway, the last post by Stuart
>Williams proposes additional maps to include possible tourist sites that
>I might be able to help with a bit. He probably meant mostly in France,
>but here in Florida, there are sites including Jules Verne Park in
>Tampa, the historical plaque and the streets named for characters. There
>is the Bok singing tower -Bok being one of Verne's publishers in the US,
>the archives of which include some correspondance, I understand. There
>is the Phineas (sic) Fogg bar in Orlando, together with the (former, now
>probably permanently defunct) 20K ride at Disney (although they may put
>in an Atlantis ride), and a small Nautilus model in EPCOT, and the JV
>train (from Back to the Future series) at Universal. There is some
>mention of Verne among the exhibits at Cape Canaveral as well. While
>these are more frivolous than the voyage maps, and not three-star items
>by any means, they might be considered for inclusion on a tourist map.
>Yours, David McCallister


Interesting idea, having a tourist guide for vernien travellers around the
world. Citing not only places of his life or places mentioned in the
stories (even if some of them do not exist), but also secondary places
using JV's pointers to name a street, a place, a restaurant, a bar, a
monument, even a lunar crater!

A complete liste does'nt exist yet. Incomplete lists of vernian toponymy
are many already available. If somebody wants to launch such a project, it
will be necessary to define the limits of what has to be part of the
catalogue of names and places. If somebody is willing to do it, I'm ready
to help, with hundreds of toponymical mentions around the world.

Jean-Michel Margot

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