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Jules Verne
 

Joyous Miseries of Three Travellers in Scandinavia

 

Translated with an introduction, notes and appendices

William Butcher

The Acadian Press, 2011

 

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Patrick Barker

 

Voices of Today

April 2022

 

 

 

 

 

The humorous and high-spirited Joyeuses Misères de trois voyageurs en Scandinavie was published in 2003, in the form of the sole surviving chapter.

This publication, the first English translation and the first substantive study of the work, is fully illustrated.

 

 

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