Jules Verne

An Antartic Mystery Jules Verne

An Antarctic Mystery is a exciting sea adventure written by Jules Verne in 1897. Verne's this book is regarded as a sequel of Edgar Allan Poe's novel 'The Narrator of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket'. He tries to reveal the mystery of Pym's fate. The novel is written in two volumes. In this novel author describes his adventurous journey from the Kerguelen island aboard Halbrane. The story is set in 1839, a wealthy American Jeorling, boarder on a ship Halbrane from Kerguelen island to return United States, Len Guy is ship's Captain. On their voyage, they see an iceberg with a dead body and identified it as a Jane sailor. By a note they get information that Jane's Captain William Guy and several others are still living. Ship's Captain Len Guy who is the brother of Captain William Guy decides to rescue the missing Jane's crew. They move ahead on adventurous voyage, facing troubles of storm they meet the Jane's crew William Guy tells the thrilling story. When the reach foot of the Sphinx, they find Pym dead. After that they reach open ocean safely.