The Adventures of Captain Hatteras

The Adventures of Captain Hatteras ( The Adventures of Captain Hatteras also or travels and adventures of Captain Hatteras ) is a novel by the French writer Jules Verne. The novel was first published in 1866 under the French title Voyages et aventures du capitaine Hatteras from the publisher Pierre -Jules Hetzel. The first German -language edition was published in 1875 under the title Travel and adventures of Captain Hatteras. The English title of the novel is The Adventures of Captain Hatteras.

Action

The action of the novel begins in Liverpool. The captain Richard Shandon leaves at the behest of a stranger who his letters with the abbreviation KZ sign, build a brig, which is given the name forward. At the request of the unknown Shandon hires a crew and takes himself the post of first officer. The location of the ship's doctor receives the rotund doctor Clawbonny, who was hired by the unknown even in writing. The captain's post has the stranger himself reserved.

As is said by the unknown time to leave Liverpool, came on board a dog appears. The dog has a letter in its mouth; The letter contains the statement embark North Course. So leaving the Liverpool forward without the captain came on board. The team thinks that the dog was the captain. During the trip, Richard Shandon found in his cabin a letter with further instructions; the captain will be so on board.

The drive takes more and more to the north. The mood among the sailors is getting worse. They are afraid of the " captain dogs " and try to leave him in a hole in the ice, he can be relieved and returns aboard the Forward. Only when threatened with an open mutiny and the forward is in danger in the pack ice to the skipper, who came in the guise of Gary sailors on board to recognize. By his prudent action he saves the ship.

He introduces himself as the team Captain John Hatteras. Captain Hatteras is obsessed with the idea to reach the North Pole, which should be in an ice-free sea in his opinion. He has repeatedly tried in vain to penetrate with a ship as far as possible to the north. On his expeditions the sailors had to suffer unspeakably; of his last expedition, he returned to England as the only survivor.

With the emergence of the captain, the mood improves on board. The forward continues her journey continues to the north. Finally, the travelers are forced to spend the winter on board the Forward in the pack ice. When the coal reserves are depleted on board, leaving Hatteras, Doctor Clawbonny and two sailors - Simpson and Bell - the brig for a reconnaissance march. During the march Simpson dies of the strains. Our customers will find the captain of the Porpoise, the wreck lies close to the forward in the pack ice cry for help. A short time later, they found the motionless body of Altamont, the captain of the Porpoise.

As Hatteras and his companions return to the Forward, burning the ship. Only the sailor Johnson waiting at the burning ship on it. Richard Shandon and the rest of the crew have already 48 hours in advance commenced on the ice the way back to the south; before they burned the ship. The travelers fill in the rubble of the brig on their supplies and embark on the search for the wreck of the Porpoise, which you can find after long agonizing days also.

They overwinter in a large igloo, they build close to the Porpoise. Altamont has already come during the march across the ice strength back. How Hatteras and the Americans Altamont tries to reach the North Pole; they decide to advance together to the north. During the long winter months, travelers recover. The hibernation is only interrupted by an invasion of polar bears.

In the spring they put their march continues to the north. You can reach - as predicted by Hatteras - an open, ice-free sea and embark on the sloop dragged along the Porpoise. Travelling north ends on a volcanic island. The North Pole is at the top of the still active volcano, as Hatteras ' calculations show. Hatteras leaves his companions. He ascends the mountain and tried to hoist the English flag on the summit, while the volcano erupts. When his companions found him at the summit, Hatteras has gone insane.

Despite this, the three of them, make it back to their homeland. Hatteras spends his last years in a sanatorium without recognizing or communicating with them its visitors. During his long walks he always knows only one direction: to the north.

Style

Adventures of Captain Hatteras is an exciting and colorful adventure novel. The people involved are exclusively men; Women do not occur. The novel contains no utopian elements. The reader is taught in the course of events of the history of exploration of the North Pole region until 1860. This is the role of Doctor Clawbonny, as the doctor is familiar not only in the field of medicine well, but has studied many areas of natural science of his time. Volcanoes play a significant role also in other works of Jules Verne.

Work history

The Adventures of Captain Hatteras was after Five Weeks in a Balloon and during his lifetime remained unpublished third Paris in the 20th century Verne's novel. It was created during the year 1863. The preprint of Voyages et aventures du capitaine Hatteras took place on 20 March 1864 to 5 December 1865 in the magazine Magasin d' Éducation et de Récréation. The book edition was published on May 4, 1866 by Pierre -Jules Hetzel publishing in two parts. The first part is entitled Les Anglais au Pole Nord ( The English at the North Pole ), the second part is entitled Le Désert du Glace ( The Ice Desert ). On November 26, 1866 followed under the title Voyages et Aventures du capitaine Hatteras. Les Anglais au pôle Nord. Le Désert de glace an illustrated with 259 drawings by Édouard Riou and Henri de Montaut output. The first German translation appeared in 1875.

On behalf Hetzel 1866 Théophile Gautier praised in a review of the novel in the Revue des Theatres Jules Verne as an artist who " found outside of Edgar Allan Poe, Jonathan Swift and Daniel Defoe its own expression and of starting on the highest level of perfection has led. "

The 1871-1872 co-written with Cadol Édouard ( 1831-1898 ) based on motifs of the novel, Le Pôle Nord theater play was never performed. The manuscript of the play was not published until 1991. Hatteras son is the main character of the written jointly with Adolphe d' Ennery 1879-1882 Voyage à travers l'impossible piece. The piece had on November 25, 1882 at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint -Martin premiere. It had only moderate success, was played until 1883 and listed 97 times.

Films

The first film adaptation was built in 1903 under the title The Adventurous Voyage of " The Arctic " ( The adventurous voyage of the " Arctic " ) at which the Briton Walter Robert Booth ( 1869-1938 ) was directing. 1909 appeared Vers le Pôle Sud ( to the South Pole ) (Director and Screenwriter Louis Feuillade ). Four years later, the film was the conquest of the pole ( Original title: À la conquête you pôle ) published, to Georges Méliès wrote the screenplay and also held the Director.