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Re: Voyage a reculons en angleterre et en ecosse

From: Jean-Michel Margot <jmmargot~at~mindspring.com>
Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 22:56:53 -0400
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~math.technion.ac.il>

At 03:12 AM 7/14/01 +0200, you wrote:

>Hi everyone,
>
>I would like to become a member of JVF and to exchange some important
>information about my favourite writer. And for the first time I would like
>to know whether the novel Voyage a reculons en angleterre et en ecosse,
>which was not printed during Verne s life, has already been printed (and
>if yes, was it translated?). I m from the Czech Republic and the only
>information I could get here, was that this book or just a manuscript
>exists. Is that a real novel like Paris in the XX century or just a travel
>book? If anyone has some more information, please let me know.
>
>Yours
>
>Tomas Bilek

Jules Verne wrote "Voyage en Angleterre et en Ecosse" in 1859, after a trip
to Britain and Scotland with his friend Aristide Hignard. The manuscript
was kept by the family Verne until it was sold to the Municipalité de
Nantes with almost all other Verne manuscripts. Christian Robin published
it in 1989 in Paris (le cherche-midi éditeur) with the title "Voyage à
reculons en Angleterre et en Ecosse", different from the title on the
manuscrpt where "à reculons" is missing. The first title of "César
Cascabel" was "Un voyage à reculons".

Janice Valls-Russell, with consultation of Bill Butcher, translated it into
English. "Backwards to Britain" was published in 1992 by Chambers in
Edinburgh and New York.


Jean-Michel Margot
Received on Sat 14 Jul 2001 - 05:49:59 IDT

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