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Quarantième ascension française au mont Blanc
(dans Docteur Ox) - 1874
Ascent of Mont Blanc (in Dr Ox's Experiment) - 1874
by Paul Verne (brother of Jules)

[Part of: Voyages Extraordinaires #63 - - Contes et Nouvelles]

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Plot Synopsis:
(courtesy of D. Kytasaari - http://epguides.com/djk/JulesVerne/works.shtml)

Jules’ brother Paul writes about his climb up Mont-Blanc.
The Ascent took place in August 1871

Book Collecting Information:

This story was NEVER attributed to anyone other than Paul Verne. Jules Verne proofread this story for Paul.
It was originally published in:

L’Union bretonne (Nantes), no. 2-4 (4-7 January 1872).
Magasin d’Éducation et de Recréation (Paris, Hetzel), vol.14, no. 166 (6 December 1871), pp. 294-303
nd no. 167 (20 December 1871), p. 327-334 (12 illustrations by Edmond Yon).
“Quarantième ascension française au Mont Blanc”, by Paul Verne, in : Le Docteur Ox, 1874.

Other Editions:

2024

Ascent of Mont Blanc
in: A Little Blue Book of Icy Peril
(A Collection of Short Stories)
2024
Borderlands Press
Baltimore, Maryland

Signed Numbered, Limited to 500 Copies

Edited by Tom Connair

Collection Andrew Nash

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