1882 1st Edtn Early Printing LES VOYAGES EXTRAORDINAIRES. LA JANGADA By Jules Verne Illus. Edouard Riou Very Good Jules Verne

Paris: Hetzel, Paris, 1882. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Imperial octavo (8vo 8+1?4 × 11+1?2 210 × 292). Edouard Riou. Please email for Photographs or further information. Very Good - Wood engraved frontispiece, illustration to title and throughout text, 8 page publisher's catalogue ('Catalogue AP' 1882) at rear, some toning, all edges gilt, original red cloth with blocked in gilt, black and blind. Tissue guarded frontispiece and drawings by Bennet; Rotterdam: written by Paul Verne and drawings by Riou. Please see photos as part of condition report 1882 1st Edition , Early Printing LES VOYAGES EXTRAORDINAIRES. LA JANGADA Huit Cents Lieues Sur l'Amazone By Jules Verne Jules Gabriel Verne (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 extraordinaires, a series of bestselling adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). His novels, always well documented, are generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into account the technological advances of the time. Verne is considered to be an important author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation was markedly different in the Anglosphere where he had often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels have often been printed. Since the 1980s, his literary reputation has improved. Jules Verne has been the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking between Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare. He has sometimes been called the "father of science fiction", a title that has also been given to H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback. In the 2010s, he was the most translated French author in the world. In France, 2005 was declared "Jules Verne Year" on the occasion of the centenary of the writer's death. Illustrated By: Edouard Riou (1833-1900) French artist and illustrator, a student of Gustave Doré; he is best known for illustrating several early instalments of Jules Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires sequence, beginning with Five Weeks in a Balloon (1865). His style, with its emphasis on outdoor scenes featuring heavily foregrounded Monsters and other creatures, stands in some contrast to the more intricate work of his main successor, Léon Benett. Format: Hardcover, Language: French Dust Jacket: No Jacket, Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket Published By: Hetzel, Paris, Paris Imperial octavo (8vo 8+1?4 × 11+1?2 210 × 292),Pages 378 ISBN: Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (French: La Jangada - Huit Cents lieues sur l'Amazone) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1881. It has also been published as The Giant Raft.[1] It is an adventure novel, involving how Joam Garral, a ranch owner living near the Peruvian-Brazilian border on the Amazon River, is forced to travel downstream when his past catches up with him. Most of the novel is situated on a large jangada (a Brazilian timber raft) that is used by Garral and his family to float to Belém, at the river's mouth. Many aspects of the raft, scenery, and journey are described in detail. SKU: BTETM0002314 Approximate Package Dimensions H: 12.5, L: 30, W: 25 (Units: cm), W: 2Kg