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100 1 _aVerne, Jules,
_d1828-1905
240 1 0 _aAventures de trois Russes et de trois Anglais dans l'Afrique australe. English
245 1 0 _aMeridiana: The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians :
_bIn South Africa
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2020
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Adventures_of_Three_Englishmen_and_Three_Russians_in_South_Africa
500 _aRelease date is 2020-11-06
508 _aGreg Weeks, Charlene Taylor, Chris Curnow, Mary Meehan and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520 _a"Meridiana: The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians" by Jules Verne is a novel written in the late 19th century. The story revolves around a scientific expedition led by an English astronomer, William Emery, along with a bushman named Mokoum, as they await the arrival of other members of an international commission on the banks of the Orange River in South Africa. Together, they embark on a journey filled with exploration, adventure, and the challenges of gathering precise measurements of the Earth's meridian. At the start of the story, William Emery and Mokoum are introduced as they wait at the Falls of Morgheda for the arrival of Colonel Everest and his companions from England. The opening chapters depict the stark beauty of the African landscape, the dynamic relationship between the eager bushman and the patient astronomer, and the suspense surrounding the delayed arrival of their fellow scientists. As the narrative unfolds, we see their preparations for the challenges ahead, including the logistics of their expedition and the significance of measuring the arc of the meridian, setting the stage for an adventure that melds science with thrilling exploration in an uncharted land. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _nOriginal publication data not identified
653 _aAdventure stories
653 _aAfrica, Southern -- Fiction
653 _aMeridians (Geodesy) -- Fiction
653 _aMeridians (Astronomy) -- Fiction
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63650
999 _c104474
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