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THE MIGHTY ORINOCO
THE WESLEYAN
EARLY CLASSICS OF
SCIENCE FICTION
SERIES
GENERAL EDITOR
ARTHUR B. EVANS
Invasion of the Sea Jules Verne
The Mysterious Island Jules Verne
Lumen Camille Flammarion
The Battle of the Sexes in Science Fiction Justine Larbalestier
The Last Man Jean-Baptiste Cousin de Grainville
THE MIGHTY ORINOCO
JULES VERNE
translated by STANFORD L. LUCE
edited by ARTHUR B. EVANS
introduction & notes by
WALTER JAMES MILLER
WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY PRESS Middletown, Connecticut
Published by Wesleyan University Press,
Middletown, CT 06459
Translation © 2002 by Stanford L. Luce
Introduction and notes © 2002 by Walter James Miller
All rights reserved
Set in Quadraat and Neuland types by BW&A Books, Inc.
Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper
ISBN 0–8195–6511–3 (cloth)
ISBN 0–8195–6780-9 (paper)
First paperback edition, 2005
CIP data appear at the back of the book.
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Cover illustration by George Roux.
Contents
INTRODUCTION
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