The Fur Country Or Seventy Degrees North Latitude

Lt. Jasper Hobson and other members of the Hudson's Bay Trading Co. and the company's guests, travel through the North West Territories of Canada to Cape Bathurst on the Arctic Ocean.

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In 1859 Lt. Jasper Hobson and other members of the Hudson's Bay Company travel through the Northwest Territories of Canada to Cape Bathurst on the Arctic Ocean on the mission to create a fort at 70 degrees, north of the Arctic Circle. The area they come to is very rich with wildlife and natural resources. Jasper Hobson and his party establish a fort here. At some point, an earthquake occurs, and from then on, laws of physics seem altered (a total eclipse happens to be only partial; tides are not perceived anymore). They eventually realise that they are on an iceberg separated from the sea ice that is drifting south. Hobson does a daily measurement to know the iceberg's location. The iceberg passes the Bering Strait and the iceberg (which is now much smaller, since the warmer waters has melted some parts) finally reaches a small island. A Danish whaling ship finds them. Every member in Hobson's party is rescued and they all survive.

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made available for future generations to enjoy.

Volume 10 of 54 of Jules Verne's "Extraordinary Voyages", first printed in 1873.A classic adventure novel by Jules Verne, "The Fur Country" is the tale of a British expedition to found a fort along the northern territories of Canada. After a mysterious earthquake, reality seems permanently altered, with tidal patterns not registering correctly and other strange happenings. All is not as it seems in this adventure set in the Arctic Regions.This particular edition is reproduced from English-edition public works, and is presented simply with an emphasis on straightforward presentation, attractiveness and continuity of appearance, with each title in the "Extraordinary Voyages" sporting a journal-style brown cover accompanied by a cover illustration and quote from the text on the back cover.