An Antarctic Mystery

An Antarctic Mystery is Jules Verne's novel that continues the story begun in Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. The traveler Jeorling joins Captain Len Guy aboard the Halbrane and becomes involved in a search for survivors of an earlier expedition. As the ship moves south, fragments of testimony acquire new significance amid ice, uncertain navigation and diminishing security. Verne treats Poe's narrative as a possible record that must be tested against the physical world. The resulting adventure links literary mystery with the practical risks of polar exploration.