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A strange manuscript found in a copper cylinder

James De Mille · 1888 · Novel

Setting: contemporary (hidden Antarctic)

Synopsis

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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Source: OpenLibrary

Tags: Canadian fiction (English), CIHMRoman canadien-anglais, ICMHFiction, mystery & detective, generalHistoryFICTIONFantasyGeneralCanadian fictionCanadian literatureFiction, science fiction, general

ISBN: 9781015296145 — Creative Media Partners, LLC, 2021, English

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isfdb_id: 835184

openlibrary_id: OL96167W

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