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JV Topography (RE: VE itineraries)

From: Garmt de Vries <G.deVries~at~phys.uu.nl>
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2001 12:07:02 +0200 (MET DST)
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Jean-Michel Margot wrote:

> 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.

This would be nice sub-topic of the JV Atlas project.

Some ideas:

To be included
- Of course all monuments explicitly commemorating JV, such as his tomb,
the monument on Formentera etc.
- Anything named 'Jules Verne': streets, restaurants etc.
- The places where JV lived, and those that he visited. BTW, we could make
maps of Verne's own journeys just like I did for the VE.

Questionable
- Places visited in the novels. It might be nice to list remarkable
locations such as the Reform Club, but it is difficult to draw a line.
Should the Stromboli be included? The island Tabor? The market place of
Nizjni-Novgorod? Gibraltar? I think it would be better to limit ourselves
to more explicitly vernian locations.
- Filming locations (e.g. Todd's Around the World).

Regards,
Garmt.
Received on Wed 11 Jul 2001 - 13:07:44 IDT

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