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The first English edition of this classic Verne adventure - with a unique feminist twist. Written in 1898 and part of Jules Verne's famous series 'Voyages Extraordinaires', 'The Mighty Orinoco' tells the story of a young man's search for his father along the then-uncharted Orinoco River of Venezuela. The text contains all the ingredients of a classic Verne scientific adventure tale - exploration and discovery, humor and drama, dastardly villains and intrepid heroes, and a host of near-fatal encounters with crocodiles, jungle fever, Indians, and outlaws - all set in a wonderfully exotic locale. This Wesleyan edition features notes and a critical introduction by renowned Verne scholar Walter James Miller as well as reproductions of all the illustrations from the original French edition.