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The Kip Brothers
Castaways on a barren island in the South Seas, Karl and Pieter Kip are rescued by the brig James Cook. After helping to quell an onboard mutiny, however, they suddenly find themselves accused and convicted of the captain's murder. In this story, one of his last Voyages Extraordinaires, Verne interweaves an exciting exploration of the South Pacific with a tale of judicial error reminiscent of the infamous Dreyfus Affair. This Wesleyan edition brings together the first English translation with one of the first detailed critical analyses of the novel, and features all the illustrations from the original 1902 publication.
514 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1902
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Jules Verne
6,603 books12.1k followersNovels of French writer Jules Gabriel Verne, considered the founder of modern science fiction, include
Journey to the Center of the Earth
(1864) and
Around the World in Eighty Days
(1873).
This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).
Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_V...
This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).
Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_V...
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August 24, 2019
Evet yine adalet yerini buluyor ve yine soluksuz okunacak bir hikaye.
James gemisinin kotu kisiler tarafından ele gecirilmesi planlanirken batan bir gemiden kurtarilan Kip kardesler once esitligi, sonra da butun oyunları bozuyor.
James gemisinin kotu kisiler tarafından ele gecirilmesi planlanirken batan bir gemiden kurtarilan Kip kardesler once esitligi, sonra da butun oyunları bozuyor.
August 3, 2025
There are books we read and forget, and books that quietly hibernate inside us—only to reawaken, decades later, with new light. Jules Verne’s The Kip Brothers was, for me, one such sleeper. Read as a teenager more out of duty to my Verne collection than true curiosity, it was filed away in the "less exciting" category. A quarter of a century later, I returned to it — and found a different book waiting.
Published in 1902, The Kip Brothers comes from the shadowy years of Verne’s later writing, when the early techno-utopian exuberance of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea had given way to something more sobering. It is not a book of gadgets and gleaming submarines; it is, rather, a courtroom novel masquerading as a sea adventure — a Dumasian tale of loyalty, injustice, and moral endurance, dipped in saltwater and colonial politics.
The plot, in its outline, is deceptively simple: two orphaned brothers, Karl and Pieter Kip, brave-hearted and upright, are rescued from a shipwreck by the crew of the Brig Sunderland. Before long, the ship is overtaken by mutineers. The brothers, with a calm and capable heroism, help quell the uprising. But fate, cruel as only Verne’s later plots could make it, has another twist in store. The Kip brothers are wrongly accused of murder — and what follows is not a chase or escape, but a slow, procedural unraveling of truth amid layers of prejudice, legal error, and human failing.
Re-reading the novel in 2025, its moral weight struck me with the force of a historical echo. The legalistic detail — which had bored my younger self — now felt chillingly prescient. The trial scenes unfold like a proto-thriller, fueled not by action but by psychological suspense and the terrible inertia of wrongful accusation. It’s not quite Dostoevskian in depth, but it’s Verne stretching his imagination into the realm of human systems — the law, society, and the fallibility of judgment.
One can't help but read The Kip Brothers today as a kind of Shipwrecked Les Misérables. Like Hugo’s Jean Valjean, the Kips are victims of a system too eager to believe in guilt, too slow to test the evidence. And like Valjean, their strength lies not in protest but in quiet, upright resistance.
The most powerful through-line is, of course, justice — or the miscarriage thereof. It’s almost startling to find such a passionate critique of legal failings in Verne, a writer more often associated with charts and compasses than with courtrooms. But here, he is clear-eyed and critical, exposing how narratives, rather than facts, shape the outcomes of trials. The Kip brothers are punished not because of what they did, but because of how they appear, and how their story can be twisted.
Their unwavering loyalty to each other adds another dimension. The sibling bond in The Kip Brothers is not just sentimental; it’s existential. Karl and Pieter stand together not just because they love each other, but because in a world that is quick to judge and slow to understand, their bond is their last defense against dissolution. This is brotherhood as moral anchor — more than a motif, it’s a lifeline.
What surprised me on rereading was the light brushstroke of postcolonial tension. Set partly in the Pacific and New Zealand, the novel brings in indigenous characters and colonial settings, though often through the typical 19th-century European lens. It's no Heart of Darkness, but it raises questions — quietly, perhaps unintentionally — about the outsider, the 'savage', the lens of empire. There’s more here than meets the eye, and in today’s reading climate, these elements feel ripe for re-examination.
When I first read Verne, it was all about the wow factor: the Nautilus, the speed wager, the volcano-powered utopia. The Kip Brothers offered none of that, and so it faded. But now I see that it belongs to a different lineage within Verne’s work — one that shares more with The Mysterious Island or even Michael Strogoff, in its stoic, realist temperament.
Stacked up against his best-known novels, The Kip Brothers seems like the odd cousin at the dinner table. Where Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea dazzles with marine biology and technological splendor, The Kip Brothers offers legal documents and eyewitness accounts. Where Around the World in Eighty Days dances with cosmopolitan joy, this book trudges through bureaucracy. Even The Mysterious Island, that hymn to engineering, feels more optimistic.
But therein lies its value. Verne was aging. His son Michel was beginning to edit — or rewrite — some of his works. The world was no longer enchanted by science alone; it was facing wars, doubts, and legal systems that often failed the very people they claimed to protect. The Kip Brothers reads like Verne's attempt to wrestle with this sobering reality.
Coming back to this novel after 25 years was like revisiting a childhood home only to find it had become a courthouse. What I once skipped over now seemed essential; what I once sought in adventure, I now found in moral tension. It reminded me how books, like people, change depending on the light we view them in — or the age we bring to them.
It’s not a perfect novel. The pacing can feel uneven, and the courtroom detail might test modern readers’ patience. But there is something compelling — and yes, masterful — in how Verne layers suspense not with bullets or beasts, but with testimony and doubt.
The Kip Brothers deserves more readers. Not because it is the most thrilling of Verne’s works — it isn’t — but because it dares to be slow, serious, and startlingly contemporary in its themes.
It is a novel of moral gravity wrapped in maritime canvas. Less of a voyage, more of a trial — and that, perhaps, is the most extraordinary journey of all.
Published in 1902, The Kip Brothers comes from the shadowy years of Verne’s later writing, when the early techno-utopian exuberance of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea had given way to something more sobering. It is not a book of gadgets and gleaming submarines; it is, rather, a courtroom novel masquerading as a sea adventure — a Dumasian tale of loyalty, injustice, and moral endurance, dipped in saltwater and colonial politics.
The plot, in its outline, is deceptively simple: two orphaned brothers, Karl and Pieter Kip, brave-hearted and upright, are rescued from a shipwreck by the crew of the Brig Sunderland. Before long, the ship is overtaken by mutineers. The brothers, with a calm and capable heroism, help quell the uprising. But fate, cruel as only Verne’s later plots could make it, has another twist in store. The Kip brothers are wrongly accused of murder — and what follows is not a chase or escape, but a slow, procedural unraveling of truth amid layers of prejudice, legal error, and human failing.
Re-reading the novel in 2025, its moral weight struck me with the force of a historical echo. The legalistic detail — which had bored my younger self — now felt chillingly prescient. The trial scenes unfold like a proto-thriller, fueled not by action but by psychological suspense and the terrible inertia of wrongful accusation. It’s not quite Dostoevskian in depth, but it’s Verne stretching his imagination into the realm of human systems — the law, society, and the fallibility of judgment.
One can't help but read The Kip Brothers today as a kind of Shipwrecked Les Misérables. Like Hugo’s Jean Valjean, the Kips are victims of a system too eager to believe in guilt, too slow to test the evidence. And like Valjean, their strength lies not in protest but in quiet, upright resistance.
The most powerful through-line is, of course, justice — or the miscarriage thereof. It’s almost startling to find such a passionate critique of legal failings in Verne, a writer more often associated with charts and compasses than with courtrooms. But here, he is clear-eyed and critical, exposing how narratives, rather than facts, shape the outcomes of trials. The Kip brothers are punished not because of what they did, but because of how they appear, and how their story can be twisted.
Their unwavering loyalty to each other adds another dimension. The sibling bond in The Kip Brothers is not just sentimental; it’s existential. Karl and Pieter stand together not just because they love each other, but because in a world that is quick to judge and slow to understand, their bond is their last defense against dissolution. This is brotherhood as moral anchor — more than a motif, it’s a lifeline.
What surprised me on rereading was the light brushstroke of postcolonial tension. Set partly in the Pacific and New Zealand, the novel brings in indigenous characters and colonial settings, though often through the typical 19th-century European lens. It's no Heart of Darkness, but it raises questions — quietly, perhaps unintentionally — about the outsider, the 'savage', the lens of empire. There’s more here than meets the eye, and in today’s reading climate, these elements feel ripe for re-examination.
When I first read Verne, it was all about the wow factor: the Nautilus, the speed wager, the volcano-powered utopia. The Kip Brothers offered none of that, and so it faded. But now I see that it belongs to a different lineage within Verne’s work — one that shares more with The Mysterious Island or even Michael Strogoff, in its stoic, realist temperament.
Stacked up against his best-known novels, The Kip Brothers seems like the odd cousin at the dinner table. Where Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea dazzles with marine biology and technological splendor, The Kip Brothers offers legal documents and eyewitness accounts. Where Around the World in Eighty Days dances with cosmopolitan joy, this book trudges through bureaucracy. Even The Mysterious Island, that hymn to engineering, feels more optimistic.
But therein lies its value. Verne was aging. His son Michel was beginning to edit — or rewrite — some of his works. The world was no longer enchanted by science alone; it was facing wars, doubts, and legal systems that often failed the very people they claimed to protect. The Kip Brothers reads like Verne's attempt to wrestle with this sobering reality.
Coming back to this novel after 25 years was like revisiting a childhood home only to find it had become a courthouse. What I once skipped over now seemed essential; what I once sought in adventure, I now found in moral tension. It reminded me how books, like people, change depending on the light we view them in — or the age we bring to them.
It’s not a perfect novel. The pacing can feel uneven, and the courtroom detail might test modern readers’ patience. But there is something compelling — and yes, masterful — in how Verne layers suspense not with bullets or beasts, but with testimony and doubt.
The Kip Brothers deserves more readers. Not because it is the most thrilling of Verne’s works — it isn’t — but because it dares to be slow, serious, and startlingly contemporary in its themes.
It is a novel of moral gravity wrapped in maritime canvas. Less of a voyage, more of a trial — and that, perhaps, is the most extraordinary journey of all.
October 10, 2015
This was one of the last books Verne wrote, and only translated into English. I can see why it was so long in being translated. It just was not that good of a story. The book could not make up its mind whether it was a travelogue or an adventure story; it tried to be both, and pulled off neither one convincingly.
If you are Verne fan you ought to read it just because. If you are only a casual reader of Verne, stick with the mainstream corpus, such as 20,000 Leagues, Journey to the Center of the Earth, or Mysterious Island.
If you are Verne fan you ought to read it just because. If you are only a casual reader of Verne, stick with the mainstream corpus, such as 20,000 Leagues, Journey to the Center of the Earth, or Mysterious Island.
August 30, 2022
(50) Les Frères Kip (The Kip Brothers, 1902) (2 volumes) 102K words
The 50th Extraordinary Voyage takes us to Oceania, where we had already been in "Mistress Branican" and "Propeller Island". We visit New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon Islands and Tasmania. The first part of the novel is a sea adventure, and the second a crime thriller.
First read or reread?: First read for me.
What is it about?: Aboard a merchant ship called James Cook, Captain Gibson is waiting to leave New Zealand for New Ireland (in Papua New Guinea), but his crew is not complete due to desertions, very common at that time because of a gold fever in new Zealand which led many sailors to desert and seek their fortune. Flig Balt, his boatswain, and Vin Mod, one of his sailors, take it upon themselves to recruit new sailors, men of dubious character who are just looking for easy money. Captain Gibson, accompanied by his son, Nat Gibson, and the owner of the ship, Mr. Hawkins, finally sails to the islands north of Papua. But Mod and Balt, with the help of the new sailors, are only looking for one thing: to take control of the ship and use it to do piracy in the islands of the Pacific. During the trip between Wellington and New Ireland, the James Cook comes to the aid of two castaways: the Kip brothers. Eventually, there will be a mutiny, and due to the machinations of the mutineers, the Kip brothers are framed for a murder they have not committed.
The novels Verne published during the last few years of his life have a certain reputation for being slower and less eventful, but I'm not finding that to be the case. Not exactly, at least. This novel is certainly not uneventful: plenty of things happen, and it has a rather good plot. I think the reputation comes from the fact that some of Verne's writing during this period is quieter than usual, with less tension. When I say "quieter" I do not mean it in a good way, but it's a matter of storytelling style more than plot.
I notice a bit of that in the first part of the novel. There's a lot going on: the travels among the Pacific islands, the conspiration of the mutineers, the rescue of the castaways... There's also Verne's usual geographical descriptions, but that's something that veteran Verne readers always expect. It's part of his signature style. He was an adventure writer but also tried to take his readers on an imaginary trip, describing faraway lands or surprising science ideas. In this case, however, some parts of this first half of the novel are not as gripping as his best novels. There's just less tension in the storytelling.
It does not become a big problem, though, because there is always something happening and the characters are likable.
Then, at the end of the first half, the pace of the story speeds up: murder, mutiny, unfair accusations, a court case... From there, I found all the second half of the story quite gripping, from the point of view of the unfairly accused brothers.
The story was inspired by the real case of the Rorique brothers, accused of piracy despite their heroic past, and it's also a meditation on the miscarriage of justice during the Dreyfus affair. Brotherly love is an important theme of the story, and Jules Verne dedicated the novel to his brother Paul, who had always been very close to him and had died a few years earlier. Jules would join him only three years after the publication of the novel.
On that second part of the novel, the brothers are sent to prison, and the plot thickens with an escape attempt organized by some Irish political prisoners. This part of the story is not really a mystery, because we are always aware that the brothers are innocent and of what really happened, so I would call it a crime/prison thriller and, as I said, I found it quite gripping. I was eager to know what would happen to the brothers and whether (and how) they would be vindicated.
Verne's biases are in play here, with his wariness about the British Empire and also with some less than laudatory descriptions of the natives.
The resolution of the story, which I will not reveal, is one of those Verne twists relying on a scientific effect, the kind of thing which was more common in the first part of his career but not so much in this period. When I read this ending, I thought it was some weird pseudoscience belief from the 19th century, but researching it afterwards it turns out it's not completely unscientific and has been seriously studied, although it's too inconsistent and unreliable to be useful in practice for criminal investigations.
Enjoyment factor: I enjoyed it. There are some sections in the first half of the novel which are lacking narrative tension, but we don't have much time for boredom because there's a lot going on. After that, the story becomes gripping.
Next up: Travel Scholarships
See all my Verne reviews here: https://www.sffworld.com/forum/thread...
The 50th Extraordinary Voyage takes us to Oceania, where we had already been in "Mistress Branican" and "Propeller Island". We visit New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, the Bismarck Archipelago, the Solomon Islands and Tasmania. The first part of the novel is a sea adventure, and the second a crime thriller.
First read or reread?: First read for me.
What is it about?: Aboard a merchant ship called James Cook, Captain Gibson is waiting to leave New Zealand for New Ireland (in Papua New Guinea), but his crew is not complete due to desertions, very common at that time because of a gold fever in new Zealand which led many sailors to desert and seek their fortune. Flig Balt, his boatswain, and Vin Mod, one of his sailors, take it upon themselves to recruit new sailors, men of dubious character who are just looking for easy money. Captain Gibson, accompanied by his son, Nat Gibson, and the owner of the ship, Mr. Hawkins, finally sails to the islands north of Papua. But Mod and Balt, with the help of the new sailors, are only looking for one thing: to take control of the ship and use it to do piracy in the islands of the Pacific. During the trip between Wellington and New Ireland, the James Cook comes to the aid of two castaways: the Kip brothers. Eventually, there will be a mutiny, and due to the machinations of the mutineers, the Kip brothers are framed for a murder they have not committed.
The novels Verne published during the last few years of his life have a certain reputation for being slower and less eventful, but I'm not finding that to be the case. Not exactly, at least. This novel is certainly not uneventful: plenty of things happen, and it has a rather good plot. I think the reputation comes from the fact that some of Verne's writing during this period is quieter than usual, with less tension. When I say "quieter" I do not mean it in a good way, but it's a matter of storytelling style more than plot.
I notice a bit of that in the first part of the novel. There's a lot going on: the travels among the Pacific islands, the conspiration of the mutineers, the rescue of the castaways... There's also Verne's usual geographical descriptions, but that's something that veteran Verne readers always expect. It's part of his signature style. He was an adventure writer but also tried to take his readers on an imaginary trip, describing faraway lands or surprising science ideas. In this case, however, some parts of this first half of the novel are not as gripping as his best novels. There's just less tension in the storytelling.
It does not become a big problem, though, because there is always something happening and the characters are likable.
Then, at the end of the first half, the pace of the story speeds up: murder, mutiny, unfair accusations, a court case... From there, I found all the second half of the story quite gripping, from the point of view of the unfairly accused brothers.
The story was inspired by the real case of the Rorique brothers, accused of piracy despite their heroic past, and it's also a meditation on the miscarriage of justice during the Dreyfus affair. Brotherly love is an important theme of the story, and Jules Verne dedicated the novel to his brother Paul, who had always been very close to him and had died a few years earlier. Jules would join him only three years after the publication of the novel.
On that second part of the novel, the brothers are sent to prison, and the plot thickens with an escape attempt organized by some Irish political prisoners. This part of the story is not really a mystery, because we are always aware that the brothers are innocent and of what really happened, so I would call it a crime/prison thriller and, as I said, I found it quite gripping. I was eager to know what would happen to the brothers and whether (and how) they would be vindicated.
Verne's biases are in play here, with his wariness about the British Empire and also with some less than laudatory descriptions of the natives.
The resolution of the story, which I will not reveal, is one of those Verne twists relying on a scientific effect, the kind of thing which was more common in the first part of his career but not so much in this period. When I read this ending, I thought it was some weird pseudoscience belief from the 19th century, but researching it afterwards it turns out it's not completely unscientific and has been seriously studied, although it's too inconsistent and unreliable to be useful in practice for criminal investigations.
Enjoyment factor: I enjoyed it. There are some sections in the first half of the novel which are lacking narrative tension, but we don't have much time for boredom because there's a lot going on. After that, the story becomes gripping.
Next up: Travel Scholarships
See all my Verne reviews here: https://www.sffworld.com/forum/thread...
May 12, 2021
În acea perioadă, 1885, la patruzeci şi şase de ani după ce a fost ocupată de Marea Britanie, făcând-o dependentă de Noua Scoţie de Sud, la treizeci şi doi de ani după ce s-a desprins de Coroană şi s-a autoguvernat ca o colonie independentă, Noua Zeelandă era încă sfâşiată de febra endemică a aurului. Tulburările pe care le-a provocat această febră nu au fost la fel de distructive aşa cum s-au manifestat în anumite provincii ale continentului australian. Totuşi, în urma acestei căutări furibunde a metalului preţios au rezultat tulburări regretabile, care au afectat populaţiile celor două insule. Provincia Otago, cuprinzând partea meridională a regiunii Tawaï Punamu, a fost invadată de căutări de filoane. Zăcămintele de la Clutha atrăgeau numeroşi aventurieri. Astfel, s-a estimat că profitul zăcămintelor aurifere ale Noii Zeelande, între 1864 şi 1889, se ridica la o mie două sute de milioane de franci.
Australienii, chinezii nu au fost singurii care s-au abătut ca nişte păsări de pradă asupra acestor bogăţii, ei fiind urmaţi de americani şi de europeni. Şi ne mai putem mira de faptul că echipajele navelor de comerţ cu destinaţia Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Napier, Invercargill, Dunedin nu au fost destul de hotărâte pentru a rezista acestei atracţii imediat după sosirea lor în porturile respective?… În van au încercat căpitanii să-i reţină pe mateloţi; în zadar le-au cerut ajutorul autorităţile maritime!… Dezertările erau în masă, iar radele porturilor se umpleau cu ambarcaţiuni care, din lipsă de oameni, nu puteau ieşi în larg.
Australienii, chinezii nu au fost singurii care s-au abătut ca nişte păsări de pradă asupra acestor bogăţii, ei fiind urmaţi de americani şi de europeni. Şi ne mai putem mira de faptul că echipajele navelor de comerţ cu destinaţia Auckland, Wellington, Christchurch, Napier, Invercargill, Dunedin nu au fost destul de hotărâte pentru a rezista acestei atracţii imediat după sosirea lor în porturile respective?… În van au încercat căpitanii să-i reţină pe mateloţi; în zadar le-au cerut ajutorul autorităţile maritime!… Dezertările erau în masă, iar radele porturilor se umpleau cu ambarcaţiuni care, din lipsă de oameni, nu puteau ieşi în larg.
January 13, 2026
1885 yılının Avustralya kıtası ve çevresinde yaşanan “James Cook” adli geminin maceraları ve bu geminin kaptanının öldürülmesi hakkında soruşturmalar. Olayın kurbanı kaptan Gibson, kendisini çok kıskanan tayfabaşısı, ve onu kışkırtan tayfası Vin Mod’un birçok tuzaklarından kurtulsa da, bir gün ormanda dostlarına giderken iki kinci onu öldürmeyi başarır. Böylece kaptanlığı ele geçiren tayfabaşı Flig Balt gemiyi istediği bir takım adalara sürüp gemideki kaptan Gibson’un oğlu Nat’i, kaptanın arkadaşı Bay Hawkins’i, kaptanın tayfalarını (güvenilir olan Burnes, Wickley ve Hobbes) ve kaptanın ölmeden once Norfolk adasından kurtardığı iki kardeş olan Hollandalıları (Kip kardeşler), hareket ettikleri limanın barından bulup ise aldığı 4 diğer katil ruhlu adamlar gerçekleştirmek istiyordu. Bunu başaramadı, ve Kip kardeşlerden büyüğü olan Karl kaptanlığı ele geçirdi, ve ilk limanda ayaklanma çıkaran Flig ve diğer 4 gemici hakkında dava açtı. Fakat Vin Mod dışarıdan Flig’e yardım etti ve sinsi planları sayesinde Kip kardeşleri kaptan Gibson’u öldürmekle suçladı. Olaylar gelişti…
March 4, 2017
No había yo caído en eso, pero mi señora esposa me hace notar que Kip en holandés es "pollo", y los hermanos Kip son holandeses, por lo tanto son los hermanos Pollo, nombre que les va al pelo porque resultan ser bastante "pollo peras" (como sinónimo de panolis) por dejarse engañar tan fácilmente.
Pequeño spoiler:
En esta novela asistimos a un caso criminal y a unos condenados por error (los Kip), que al final son rehabilitados gracias a una fotografía del asesinado, que revela a los verdaderos asesinos. Como todo Verne, la acción no es más que un paso necesario para las descripciones geográficas y sociales.
Pequeño spoiler:
En esta novela asistimos a un caso criminal y a unos condenados por error (los Kip), que al final son rehabilitados gracias a una fotografía del asesinado, que revela a los verdaderos asesinos. Como todo Verne, la acción no es más que un paso necesario para las descripciones geográficas y sociales.
April 11, 2020
Es de esperarse que el desarrollo de la trama te conduzca a un final feliz, pero el "cómo" me sorprendió para bien.
Las descripciones excesivamente detalladas sobre algunas locaciones pueden ser aburridas dependiendo de la curiosidad de cada unx, no molestan si es que hay una disposición abierta en absorber conocimientos de las culturas y lugares de Oceanía.
No deja de llamarme la atención algunas expresiones sexistas y algunas descalificaciones a los pueblos originarios, pero bueno, supongo que así escribían algunos varones de ese entonces.
Las descripciones excesivamente detalladas sobre algunas locaciones pueden ser aburridas dependiendo de la curiosidad de cada unx, no molestan si es que hay una disposición abierta en absorber conocimientos de las culturas y lugares de Oceanía.
No deja de llamarme la atención algunas expresiones sexistas y algunas descalificaciones a los pueblos originarios, pero bueno, supongo que así escribían algunos varones de ese entonces.
April 14, 2019
3.5 stars
November 13, 2023
Not his best. Felt long at times, but it's still a Verne. 😉 4 stars
August 26, 2014
Recently published in English for the first time (2007), "The Kip Brothers" takes to the trade routes of the South Pacific on the merchant ship James Cook. The villainous plans that overshadow the voyage don't keep Mr. Verne from sharing geographical highlights of the islands, descriptions of the indigenous populace and details of the exotic flora and fauna that decorate this adventure. Mutiny, shipwrecks, skullduggery and treachery infest this tale of noble hearts caught up in a judicial error.
While this opus has little to offer in the way of Science Fiction that is the expectation of Verne’s work, it is a fine example of the pre-mystery genre crime drama.
While this opus has little to offer in the way of Science Fiction that is the expectation of Verne’s work, it is a fine example of the pre-mystery genre crime drama.
June 20, 2014
Un barco a bordo del cual se trama un motín, recoge a dos hermanos náufragos que acompañarán su periplo por Oceanía. A diferencia de otras ocasiones, en este libro Verne prolonga con regular éxito una historia que parecería no dar para mucho; para ello, hace pasar a los personajes por varias situaciones sucesivas, con satisfactorias soluciones de continuidad. Lo mejor es el talento de Verne para transportarnos a tierras lejanas, despertándonos la curiosidad por su geografía y su historia.
September 5, 2014
Un livre intéressant à tout point de vue, que ce soit pour l'intrigue passionnante, le style assez pittoresque, le côté historico-géographique ou le côté "culturel".
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