''The Sea Serpent: The Yarns of Jean Marie Cabidoulin'' (french: Les Histoires de Jean-Marie Cabidoulin, lit. ''The Stories of Jean-Marie Cabidoulin'') is an

adventure novel Adventure fiction is a type of fiction that usually presents danger, or gives the reader a sense of excitement. Some adventure fiction also satisfies the literary definition of romance fiction. History In the Introduction to the ''Encyclopedi ...

by French author

Jules Verne Jules Gabriel Verne (;''Longman Pronunciation Dictionary''. ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ''Voyages extraor ...

first published in 1901. The story centers on a French whaling ship, the ''St. Enoch'', which sets out from Le Havre on a voyage to kill whales for their meat and oil. The ship's cooper is the eponymous Cabidoulin, a firm believer in the existence of a giant serpent with a habit of dragging vessels to their doom.

Publication history

*1967, UK, London, Arco, 191 pp., 60 illus., First English translation

External links

''Les Histoires de Jean-Marie Cabidoulin''
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Jules Verne Collection
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