Physical description

Hard cover book, The Blockade Runners and A Floating City.
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: Sampson Low, Marston, & Company, London
Date: 1894-1900.
Light blue hardcover with the title on the spine having lettering to spine in black hand written text pen.

Publication type

fiction

Inscriptions & markings

Flyleaf has full publication details.
Label on spine cover with typed text PAT 843 VER
Front loose end paper has 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

The “A Floating City” part of the novel (1871) is about a transatlantic voyage aboard Brunel's “Great Eastern” steam ship. The unnamed French narrator joins his friend Captain Fabian Mac Elwin, who is heartbroken to see his former love Ellen on board with her abusive husband Harry Drake. Tensions build as the journey progresses, culminating in a dramatic confrontation at sea. The story is based on Verne's own 1867 voyage on the Great Eastern.
“The Blockade Runners” (1865 ) was a novella , set during the American Civil War,the main character is a British merchant captain James Playfair who must break the Union blockade of Charleston, South Carolina, to trade his supplies for cotton. His commercial mission shifts when he falls in love with Jenny Halliburtt, who disguised herself as a boy to join his crew and rescue her father a Confederate prisoner an abolitionist and journalist.