The Fur Country

The Fur Country
Title page of 1st illustrated French edition
AuthorJules Verne
Original titleLe Pays des fourrures
TranslatorN. d’Anvers
IllustratorJules Férat and
Alfred Quesnay de Beaurépaire
LanguageFrench
SeriesThe Extraordinary Voyages #10
GenreAdventure novel
PublisherPierre-Jules Hetzel
Publication date
1873
Publication placeFrance
Published in English
1873
Media typePrint (Hardback)
Preceded byThe Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa 
Followed byAround the World in Eighty Days 

The Fur Country (French: Le Pays des fourrures) or Seventy Degrees North Latitude is an adventure novel by Jules Verne in The Extraordinary Voyages series, first published in 1873. The novel was serialized in Magasin d’Éducation et de Récréation from 20 September 1872 to 15 December 1873. The two-volume first original French edition and the first illustrated large-format edition were published in 1873 by Pierre-Jules Hetzel.[1] The first English translation by N. D’Anvers (pseudonym of Mrs. Arthur (Nancy) Bell) was also published in 1873.[2]

  1. ^ Cf. Piero Gondolo della Riva: Bibliographie analytique de toutes les œuvres de Jules Verne. Tome I. Société Jules Verne. Pages 36-37. 1977.
  2. ^ Von Lintel, Amy (2015). Nancy Bell's Elementary History of Art and the British Origins of Popular Art History (PDF). Association of Historians of Nineteenth-Century Art. pp. 165 (pdf page 5), footnote #9 p178 (pdf page 18).

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