Jules Verne

The Fur Country Annotated Jules Verne

This is the 10th book in the Extraordinary Voyages Series. In 1859 Lt. Jasper Hobson and other members of the Hudson's Bay Company travel through the Northwest Territories of Canada to Cape Bathurst on the Arctic Ocean on the mission to create a fort at 70 degrees, north of the Arctic Circle. The area they come to is very rich with wildlife and natural resources. Hobson and his party establish a fort, but when an earthquake occurs, the laws of physics are altered.