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Re: Old Favorites in New English Translations --THANK YOU!

From: Tom McCormick <tom.amity~at~yahoo.com>
Date: Thu, 4 Feb 2010 11:44:25 -0800 (PST)
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Congrats to Rick on this important volume! Tom McC. ________________________________ From: "Rick Walter~at~comcast.net" <rick1walter~at~comcast.net> To: Jules Verne Forum <jvf@Gilead.org.il> Sent: Thu, February 4, 2010 7:44:48 AM Subject: Re: Old Favorites in New English Translations --THANK YOU! Dear Art, Bill, Peter, Mark, Craig, and Harry-- Many thanks for your kind words. And still more thanks for all your invaluable Vernian contributions over the years -- without them this book wouldn't have been possible! Warmest regards, Rick Frederick Paul Walter Albuquerque, New Mexico ----- Original Message ----- From: "Craig Weatherhill" <craig@agantavas.org> To: "Jules Verne Forum" <jvf@Gilead.org.il> Sent: Thursday, February 04, 2010 5:04 AM Subject: Re: Old Favorites in New English Translations > Has anyone bought 'Nautilus' yet (available on Amazon)? > > Craig > > > On 4 Whe 2010, at 11:56, Mark Eckell wrote: > >> Congratulations Rick.  I'm sure it will be successful.  I will order mine today. >> >> Mark >> >> From: rick1walter@comcast.net >> To: jvf@Gilead.org.il >> Subject: Old Favorites in New English Translations >> Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:11:05 -0700 >> >> Dear Friends, >> >> I’m pleased and proud to announce the publication of a handy omnibus  of some of Jules Verne’s best-loved novels, available now from SUNY Press/Excelsior Editions ($24.95 pb; ISBN 978-1-4384-3238-0).  Amazing Journeys: Five Visionary Classics offers my new, complete  translations of Journey to the Center of the Earth; From the Earth  to the Moon; Circling the Moon; 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas; and  Around the World in 80 Days. The book also includes a foreword  celebrating Verne’s unique mix of science and show business,  individual introductions to each novel, textual notes,  recommendations for further reading, and dozens of classic  engravings by Riou, Montaut, Roux, de Neuville, Férat, and others. >> >> Over recent decades, as you know, Verne has fared tremendously well  in America, and scholarly editions of many less-familiar titles are  now available on the U.S. market. This item, however, is for the  general reader. America is full of smart people who aren’t literary  scholars but who would love to get acquainted or reacquainted with  Verne’s essential works. Amazing Journeys is aimed at them. >> >> Over the years, I’ve translated six full novels and three fragments  by Verne, and in the process, I recall hobnobbing with scores of  scientists and engineers. One thing popped up time and again: they  adore Jules Verne. They grew up with his tales, he shaped their  lives and careers. The same goes for science fiction buffs, today’s  high school students, and countless others. These readers aren’t  literary scholars, yet they, too, deserve the authentic Verne. But  there are so many watered-down adaptations and condensations out  there, and a good modern English translation of Autour de la Lune  hasn’t been commercially available for three decades! >> >> Since Verne was a science buff with a showbiz background, he also  shaped my own life: for decades I’ve earned my living as a  scriptwriter & broadcaster, and my lifelong hobby has been fossil  hunting. So, as the first factor in this dual equation, I’ve worked  to make Verne’s science clear and accurate—something that’s far  easier now that the internet is so enormously developed. In the  early 90s I did a lot of Vernian research, but it was on my hands  and knees in dingy library stacks or in front of museum specimen  drawers—many problems never got solved at all. But today I can pay  electronic visits to original French sources that Verne himself  consulted, so the litanies of fish in 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas  or the catalogs of craters in Circling the Moon can finally make  sense to English-speaking readers. >> >> As for the showbiz half of the equation, I’ve put extra energy into rendering the wit, humor, and comic hijinks in Verne’s yarns. Few readers realize that he scripted sitcoms in his early career and was  a top-flight gag writer. Not surprisingly, that gift for comedy  carried over into the novels, yet much of it has gotten lost in  translation. Hopefully not here—Verne is one of literature’s slyest  humorists and satirists, and I’ve been burning calories to put this  over in these new translations. >> >> All five, needless to say, are complete down to the smallest  substantive detail, benefiting immeasurably from the many available  online texts, the electronic accessibility of the manuscripts housed  in the Nantes municipal library, and the countless achievements of  contemporary Verne scholarship. >> >> Here are the book’s vitals: >> >> Jules Verne: Amazing Journeys: Five Visionary Classics >> $24.95 paperback; ISBN 978-1-4384-3238-0 >> 680 pages; 40 b/w illustrations >> Excelsior Editions, an imprint of State University of New York Press >> >> Ordering details and additional information are available at the publisher’s site, http://www.sunypress.edu/p-5036-amazing-journeys.aspx . Or you can visit Amazon.com at http://www.amazon.com/ Amazing- Journeys-Visionary-Classics-Excelsior/dp/1438432380/ref=sr13? ie=UTF8&s=books&qid= 1263075919&sr=1-3 >> >> I hope you enjoy reading it as much as I enjoyed channeling it! >> >> All the best, >> >> Frederick Paul Walter >> Albuquerque, New Mexico >> >> >> Hotmail: Free, trusted and rich email service. Get it now. > > -- > Craig Weatherhill > >
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