Tag: Jules Verne

An Antarctic Mystery

Jules Verne wrote a variety of adventure stories, among them An Antarctic Mystery in which the narrator starts his adventure in the Kerguelen Islands.  With descriptions of Penguins, and other  exotic animals, as well as of the long periods of ice and cold, Jules Verne takes his reader to another place, and allows them to explore a part of our planet they may never have the chance to visit.

Written in 1897, the modern audience has higher odds of getting to, or at least seeing the places he describes, and the animals are now featured in our entertainment, and have become regular fixtures in more of our zoos… and yet, over a hundred years later, this fictional work is still taking many readers to a place they may never get to visit in person.

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20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

How many children, over how many generations, have dreamed of exploring the wonders beneath the seas?  And how many of those children have gone upon a thrilling sea-faring adventure with Captain Nemo thanks to the 1870 Jules Verne novel 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea?

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In the Year 2889

Try to imagine our world 2000 years from now… imagine how people will be living, and the technology they will be using.  Then ponder, for just a moment, how many of those inventions might truly come to pass.

Jules Verne lived from 1828 to 1905, and in 1889 he (or possibly his son) not only tried to imagine life in 2889, but put pen to paper, and shared their thoughts in this short story.

“The discovery of nutritive air is still in the future,”

In some portions of the story you can feel the author bound by the ideas of their time — it was the period when novels came out a chapter a time in newspapers before being gathered together and bound as the books we now know.  Yet there are other places where he foresees the DVR, a version of Skype, all conveyed in the language and writing style of the 1880s, a juxtaposition that oddly serves to remind the reader that this was written by someone living in an age before computers and televisions, and yet able to imagine, and dream, of such concepts being not only invented, but used in daily life.

So take a moment, perhaps before you read this, or maybe after, and imagine life 2000 years from now.  What do you think might be invented?  What do you take for granted that you simply see remaining, in some form or another, a part of daily life?

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