Backwards to Britain

Travel with obstacles to England and Scotland ( Voyage à reculons en Angleterre et en Écosse ) is a 1859 written novel by French writer Jules Verne, who was 130 years later, in 1989, published in Le Cherche midi éditeur. The German translation by Elisabeth Edl appeared in 1997 in the Paul Zsolnay Verlag.

Action

The two Parisian Jacques whitefish and Jonathan Savournon get two ship passages from France to Liverpool paid. Enthusiastically they make their way to Saint -Nazaire, where they want to reach the steamship Hamburg. Once there, they learn that the Hamburg not Saint-Nazaire, but Bordeaux will start. The journey to the northerly England it leads first to the far south of France. In Bordeaux, the arrival of the ship, and the opportunities available time delay shrinks noticeably together. When it finally arrives and they reach the Atlantic Liverpool after four days, they have for their trip to Scotland only a week. The railway goes to Edinburgh. There they visit distant relatives Savournons that show or recommend them different sights. You drive on the Firth of Forth, Loch Lomond and Loch Katrine, visit Glasgow and Stirling, all the traces of the works of Lavarets favorite author Walter Scott. Through his persistent ignorance of the English language whitefish occurs again and again in more or less large blunders. On the return journey will be still be seen in double quick time in London, including a Macbeth performance and a visit to Madame Tussauds.

At the end, the bottom line: " You have touched everything, but in truth they have seen nothing! "

Background

Jules Verne undertook in the summer of 1859, with the composer Hignard Aristide, whose operas he wrote librettos, a trip to Scotland. He processed this journey to his first novel, with himself as Jacques whitefish and Hignard as Jonathan Savournon. The novel was rejected by his publisher Pierre -Jules Hetzel and published Five Weeks in a Balloon as Verne's first novel. The novel remained unpublished during his lifetime Verne, he used only a few parts in the gambling in Scotland novels Black India and The green beam. Verne's birth city of Nantes in 1981 he was the manuscript for six million francs from the estate and in 1989 appeared the journey with obstacles in France.

In travel with obstacles, the literary models Verne show how Charles Nodier and above all, which are mentioned by name in the novel, Walter Scott, or Charles Dickens in describing the misery in Liverpool, and James Fenimore Cooper in the description of the Scottish seascape. In the novels of the Voyages extraordinaires are often new or future technologies in the spotlight, here it is a new human species - the tourist.

Evidence

Work of Jules Verne
Literary work
Literature (19th century)
Literature ( French)
Novel, epic
Travel literature

Aristide Hignard Pierre-Jules Hetzel The Child of the Cavern Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea The Fur Country The Survivors of the Chancellor Michael Strogoff Off on a Comet The Begum's Fortune Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon Godfrey Morgan Kéraban the Inflexible The Archipelago on Fire Mathias Sandorf The Lottery Ticket The Flight to France Two Years' Vacation The Purchase of the North Pole Foundling Mick Captain Antifer Facing the Flag An Antarctic Mystery The Mighty Orinoco The Will of an Eccentric The Castaways of the Flag The Sea Serpent Travel Scholarships Master of the World (novel) Invasion of the Sea The Golden Volcano The Chase of the Golden Meteor The Danube Pilot The Barsac Mission Paris in the Twentieth Century

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