TY - BOOK AU - Verne,Jules TI - Kéraban-Le-Têtu, Volume I AV - PQ PY - 2005/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Turkey -- History -- Ottoman Empire, 1288-1918 -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K%C3%A9raban_the_Inflexible; Release date is 2005-05-01; Produced by Carlo Traverso, Marc D'Hooghe and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team; Original publication data not identified N2 - "Kéraban-Le-Têtu, Volume I" by Jules Verne is an adventure novel written in 1883. When a petty tax is imposed on crossing the Bosphorus Strait, the stubborn Turkish merchant Kéraban refuses to pay. Instead, he drags his Dutch business partner and companions on an absurd seven-hundred-league journey around the Black Sea. Racing against a six-week deadline to arrange his nephew's wedding, Kéraban must outwit villains plotting to steal the bride's inheritance. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8174 ER -