The Mighty Orinoco

Jules Verne. Wesleyan University Press, $29.95 (424pp) ISBN 978-0-8195-6511-2

The Mighty Orinoco (1898), Jules Verne's novel of scientific adventure along Venezuela's Orinoco River, appears in its first English translation, along with an introduction and notes by Walter James Miller. Translated by Stanford L. Luce and edited by Arthur B. Evans, the text includes all the illustrations from the original French edition.

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