About the book
In 1859 Lieutenant Jasper Hobson of the Hudson's Bay Company leads a party across Canada's Northwest Territories to Cape Bathurst on the Arctic Ocean, where he means to found a fur-trading post at 70 degrees north. With his soldiers and their wives travel guests who include Paulina Barnett, who has come for the adventure, and the astronomer Thomas Black, who hopes to watch a total eclipse the following summer. Jules Verne's adventure novel belongs to his Extraordinary Voyages series and first ran as a serial in Magasin d'Education et de Recreation.
Ovidiu Drugan, owner of Set Sail Nautic School, described it as a classic he was rereading.
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Ovidiu Drugan (Owner/Set Sail Nautic School)
Re-reading a classic :)
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