The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa
The Adventures of Three Russians and Three Englishmen in South Africa (French: Aventures de trois Russes et de trois Anglais dans l'Afrique australe) is a novel by Jules Verne published in 1872.[1]
Plot introduction
Three Russian and three English scientists depart to South Africa to measure the 24th meridian east.[2] As their mission is proceeding, the Crimean War breaks out, and the members of the expedition find themselves citizens of enemy countries. This novel can be found under alternate titles such as Adventures in the Land of the Behemoth, Measuring a Meridian, and Meridiana or Adventures in South Africa. Interestingly, the travelers, on their homeward journey, reach Victoria Falls on 25 May 1855, thus anticipating the discovery by David Livingstone by nearly six months.
![]() |
Publication
It was first published in French in 1872.[1] English translations were published in New York in 1873 and London in 1876.[3][4] In 1874 it was also published as the first half of a two-part volume entitled, Stories of Adventure along with Journey to the Center of the Earth.[5]
References
- ^ a b "Une ville flottante; Les forceurs de blocus; Aventures de 3 Russe et de 3 Anglais / Jules Verne; vignettes par Ferat; graveures par Pannemaker et Hildibrand". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
- ^ Smith, Cynthia (2022-01-25). "Jules Verne and His Geographical Novels | Worlds Revealed". The Library of Congress. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
- ^ "Meridiana: The adventures of three Englishmen and three Russians in South Africa. Translated from the French". Library of Congress. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
- ^ Verne, Jules; Frewer, Ellen E. (1876). The adventures of three Englishmen and three Russians in South Africa. London: S. Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington.
- ^ "Image 9 of A journey to the centre of the earth". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA. Retrieved 2024-01-31.
External links
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/38px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png)
- Meridiana: The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians In South Africa at Project Gutenberg
Meridiana: The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa public domain audiobook at LibriVox
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/38px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png)
- 52 Illustrations by Jules Férat
- v
- t
- e
extraordinaires
- Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863)
- Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864)
- From the Earth to the Moon (1865)
- The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (1866)
- In Search of the Castaways (1867–68)
- Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1869–70)
- Around the Moon (1870)
- A Floating City (1871)
- The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa (1872)
- The Fur Country (1873)
- Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)
- The Mysterious Island (1874–75)
- The Survivors of the Chancellor (1875)
- Michael Strogoff (1876)
- Off on a Comet (1877)
- The Child of the Cavern (1877)
- Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen (1878)
- The Begum's Fortune (1879)
- Tribulations of a Chinaman in China (1879)
- The Steam House (1880)
- Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (1881)
- Godfrey Morgan (1882)
- The Green Ray (1882)
- Kéraban the Inflexible (1883)
- The Vanished Diamond (1884)
- The Archipelago on Fire (1884)
- Mathias Sandorf (1885)
- The Lottery Ticket (1886)
- Robur the Conqueror (1886)
- North Against South (1887)
- The Flight to France (1887)
- Two Years' Vacation (1888)
- Family Without a Name (1889)
- The Purchase of the North Pole (1889)
- César Cascabel (1890)
- Mistress Branican (1891)
- The Carpathian Castle (1892)
- Claudius Bombarnac (1892)
- Foundling Mick (1893)
- Captain Antifer (1894)
- Propeller Island (1895)
- Facing the Flag (1896)
- Clovis Dardentor (1896)
- An Antarctic Mystery (1897)
- The Mighty Orinoco (1898)
- The Will of an Eccentric (1899)
- The Castaways of the Flag (1900)
- The Village in the Treetops (1901)
- The Sea Serpent (1901)
- The Kip Brothers (1902)
- Travel Scholarships (1903)
- A Drama in Livonia (1904)
- Master of the World (1904)
- Invasion of the Sea (1905)
Short stories |
|
---|---|
Novels |
|
- Doctor Ox (1874, short story collection)
- Journey Through the Impossible (1882, play)
Characters |
---|
- Nautilus
- HMS Sword
Category
![]() | This article about an adventure novel of the 1870s is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. See guidelines for writing about novels. Further suggestions might be found on the article's talk page. |
- v
- t
- e