''The Barsac Mission'' (french: L'Étonnante Aventure de la Mission Barsac) is a novel attributed to
Jules Verne and written (with inspiration from two unfinished Verne manuscripts) by his son
Michel Verne
Michel Jean Pierre Verne (August 3, 1861 – March 5, 1925) was a writer, editor, and the son of Jules Verne.
Michel was born in Paris, France. Because of his wayward behaviour, he was sent by his father to Mettray Penal Colony for six month ...
. First serialized in 1914, it was published in book form by
Hachette in 1919.
An English adaptation by
I. O. Evans was published in 1960 in two volumes, ''Into the Niger Bend'' and ''The City in the Sahara''.
It includes a hidden city, called in English "Blackland", in the
Sahara Desert
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Because of the interest of Jules Vernes in
Esperanto, the original draft, by himself, called ''"Voyage d'étude"'', contained references to the language.
[about that: Abel Montagut, ''Jules Verne kaj esperanto (la lasta romano)'', Beletra Almanako, number 5, June 2009, New York, pages 78-95.] When his son finished the work, he removed those references.
References
1914 French novels
1919 French novels
Novels by Jules Verne
Novels published posthumously
Novels first published in serial form
Novels set in Africa
Hachette (publisher) books
1914 science fiction novels
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