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Re: Jules Verne audio narrated by Michael Pritchard

From: Craig Weatherhill <craig~at~agantavas.org>
Date: Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:49:10 +0000
To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf~at~gilead.org.il>

Addendum to my last. The new Walter translation improves upon that he
did with W.J. Miller in 1993 and published by the United States Naval
Institute. The best thing about the 1993 edition is the amount of
footnotes, most of which point out where previous translators went
wrong and, in many cases, vindicating Verne's grasp of science. Verne
had previously been hammered by people such as T.L. Thomas for
scientific gaffes which were actually the fault of Mercier and
others. They had it wrong; Verne had it right (which made Thomas look
rather silly).

Craig


On 16 Kev 2009, at 10:02, wbutcher wrote:

> It's a highly abridged and distorted version of Twenty Thousand
> Leagues
> under the Seas, apparently derived from the one "translated" by Lewis
> Mercier -- to be avoided like the plague!
>
> Cordially,
>
> Bill
> http://www.ibiblio.org/julesverne/
> 1A, Kai Kuk Shue Ha, Luk Keng, North District, NT, HONG KONG
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il [mailto:owner-jvf~at~Gilead.org.il] On
> Behalf Of
> Donna Knight
> Sent: 16 December 2009 04:42
> To: jvf~at~Gilead.org.il
> Subject: Re: Jules Verne audio narrated by Michael Pritchard
>
> I am an librarian who was posed with a question about 20000 Leagues
> Under
> the Sea:
> What translation of 20000 Leagues Under the Sea is used in the
> Unabridged
> Tantor Audio version read by Michael Prichard?
> I would be grateful if you could answer this question for me.
> Sincerely
> Donna Knight
> Dacula Branch
> Gwinnett County Public Library
>
>
> "Dance like no one is watching. Sing like no one is listening. Love
> like
> you've never been hurt and live like it's heaven on Earth."
> - Mark Twain
>

--
Craig Weatherhill

Received on Wed 16 Dec 2009 - 16:15:40 IST

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