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An edition of A strange manuscript found in a copper cylinder (1888)

A strange manuscript found in a copper cylinder

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After four sailors uncover a copper cylinder containing a manuscript written by the adventurer Adam More, they read the contents out loud to each other and discover his journey to a lost world that survives at the foot of a volcano.

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Oneworld Classics, Brand: Oneworld Classics
Language
English
Pages
288

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Subjects

Canadian fiction (English), CIHM, Roman canadien-anglais, ICMH, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, History, FICTION, Fantasy, General, Canadian fiction, Canadian literature, Fiction, science fiction, general, Sea stories, Utopias, Canadian Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure, Science fiction, English literature

People

Adam More

Places

Antarctica

Times

1843, 19th century

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A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
2017, Standard Ebooks
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A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (Alma Classics)
Apr 20, 2017, Alma Books
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A strange manuscript found in a copper kettle
2014, Dodo Press.
in English
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A strange manuscript found in a copper cylinder
2009, Oneworld Classics, Brand: Oneworld Classics
in English
Cover of: A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
November 9, 2006, BiblioBazaar
Paperback in English
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A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder (Bakka Books Series, 1)
May 2001, Insomniac Press
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
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A strange manuscript found in a copper cylinder
1995, Macmillan
Microform in English
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A strange manuscript found in a copper cylinder.
1910, Macmillan Co. of Canada
in English
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A strange manuscript found in a copper cylinder
1900, Chatto & Windus
in English - "A New Edition".
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A strange manuscript found in a copper cylinder
1888, Chatto & Windus
in English - 3rd ed.
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A strange manuscript found in a copper cylinder
1888, Harper & Brothers
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Includes bibliographical references.

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Richmond

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813.4
Library of Congress
PS1534.D35 S8 2009, PS1534.D35 S8 2009

The Physical Object

Pagination
pages
Number of pages
288

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL32144700M
Internet Archive
strangemanuscrip0000demi_r9m2
ISBN 10
1847491316
ISBN 13
9781847491312
OCLC/WorldCat
427612570
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Four men aboard a boat find the titular strange manuscript in a cylindar floating in the sea. It turns out to be the story of Adam More, a sailor stranded in a savage hidden country in Antarctica. In this "nation" are everything from cannibals to kings and the bizarre citizens love death and poverty as other nations love life and prosperity. Can Adam escape...?

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