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Pterodactyl in Centre de la Terre?

From: Garmt de Vries <G.deVries~at~phys.uu.nl>
Date: Fri, 4 Aug 2006 12:05:30 +0200 (CEST)
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Dear friends,

Here's something I just realised:

In the combined frontispice for "Cinq semaines en ballon" and "Voyage au
centre de la terre" (the first image at Ariel's page
http://jgverne.cmact.com/VE/VCTierra.htm), there is a pterodactyl sitting
on a rock, at the lefthand end of the cave. In the novel, as published in
a volume, there is no such animal. I know that Verne added considerable
bits of texts during the revision of this novel, but did he also eliminate
a pterodactyl? Or is its presence in this picture just creativity on the
part of Riou, the illustrator? That would show that not only Verne, but
also Riou did a lot of background reading.

Cheers,
Garmt.
Received on Fri 04 Aug 2006 - 13:05:49 IDT

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