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March 1859. Britain, alarmed by rumors that Russia can give in its American possessions to the US government, is looking for bypass paths to the commercial lands of the Arctic. To this end, the ubiquitous company Gudzonov Gulf is arranging a feast with a mountain in the Canadian Fort Relayans. Here a battalion of brave researchers, led by Lieutenant Hobson, is formed here. The team got a slightly exotic, but well-coordinated: brave English officers and their improvised ones, among them there are “cars
in the uniform”, there are also nimble henpecks (of course with their wives), there is even an energetic widow-traveler whose nose is used to Inhale the air of unknown crusters. They all have, as the author immediately warns, to become a toy of terrible events, which was not able to foresee, even the most perspicacious human mind.
In the next volume of Jules Verne, another extraordinary adventure includes - the novel In the Country of Fur