Physical description
Hard cover book, Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery.
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: Sampson Low Marston Searle and Rivington, Crown Buildings 188 Fleet Street, London. W1.
Date: 1883
Light blue hardcover with the title on the spine having 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
Front loose end paper has a stamp from Corangamite Regional Library Service
Summary
“Godfrey Morgan A Californian Mystery” is Jules Verne’s 1882 adventure novel, originally written in French as L’École des Robinson's (“The School for Robinson's”). It follows a wealthy San Franciscan, Godfrey Morgan, who is sent on a voyage to toughen him up, only to end up marooned in a Robinson Crusoe style survival story. The original French edition was published in 1882, the first British English edition published in March 1883 by Sampson Low, Marston, Searle and Rivington.
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