Amazing Journeys: Five Visionary Classics

Overview:

• Title: Amazing Journeys: Five Visionary Classics
• Author: Jules Verne
• Year: 2010
• ISBN-10: 9781438432380
• Publisher: Excelsior Editions / State University of New York Press
• Price: $24.95
• Pages: 668
• Binding: Trade Paperback
• Type: Omnibus
• Title Reference: Amazing Journeys: Five Visionary Classics
• Notes: Date from Amazon.com as of 2009-12-18. New translations by Frederick Paul Walter. Note, this seems to be the third translation of Vingt mille lieues sous les mers undertaken by Frederick Paul Walter. Unnumbered pages follow 668 with Jules Verne and Frederick Paul Walter capsule biographies, and on next page, untitled list of art credits. Cover art is one of the interior illustrations of the original hardcover edition of Autour de la lune. Each of the five novels is prefaced by a page by the translator. No titles, signed Translator Interior art is credited to hardcover editions published by P.-J. Hetzel. - Édouard Riou from Voyage au centre de la Terre, 1867 - Henri de Montaut from De la Terre à la Lune, 1868 - George Roux from De la Terre à la Lune, 1897 - Alphonse de Neuville from Autour de la Lune, 1870 - Émile-Antoine Bayard from Autour de la Lune, 1870 - Jules Férat from L'Isle mystérieuse, 1875 - Édouard Riou from Vingt mille lieues sous les mers, 1871 - Alphonse de Neuville from Vingt mille lieues sous les mers, 1871 - Léon Benett from Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours, 1873