Physical description

Hard cover book, Eight Hundred Leagues On The Amazon
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington, Crown Buildings Fleet Street, London. W1.
Date: 1885
Light brown hardcover with the spine having a library label. Lettering to spine in black hand written text pen.

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

The label on the spine with typed text PAT 843 VER
Front loose end paper has a sticker from Warrnambool Public Library covered by a sticker from Corangamite Regional Library Service
Front loose end paper has a stamp from Corangamite Regional Library Service.

Summary

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon is Jules Verne’s Amazon adventure about the Garral family traveling down the river on a giant raft so a wedding can take place in Belém, while the father, Joam Garral, also tries to clear his name for a crime he didn’t commit. The plot turns on a cryptogram and a dangerous antagonist who controls proof of Garral’s innocence.
The novel was first published in French in 1881, and the first British edition was also in November 1881, issued by Sampson Low as part one of The Giant Raft / Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon. The subject novel is an 1885 London edition is a later reprint by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington.