The Golden Volcano
The Gold Volcano (French Le Volcan d'or ) is a novel by the French writer Jules Verne, which was first published in 1906 by the publisher Pierre -Jules Hetzel under the name Le Volcan d'or (Le Klondyke ). The posthumously published novel was heavily revised by Michel Verne. The first German -language edition was published under the title The Gold Volcano with hard life in Vienna in 1907., The English title of the novel is The Golden Volcano.
Act in the version of Michel Verne
Summy Skim lives contentedly in Montreal, Canada. He is not rich, but but living in financially secure conditions. He owns an estate with several employees, he regularly goes from which in the summer months to hunt. His cousin Ben Raddle, an engineer, is constantly looking for new challenges and is based on the profit. Therefore, he does not share the tranquility and inner peace cousin. One day Summy and Ben are loaded by a notary. This opens them, that they have inherited in the north of Canada on Miles Creek a claim of her late uncle Josiah Lacoste. An offer of a mining company over $ 5000 arrives and Summy wants to sell the claim. However, Ben is planning to exploit the claim and thereby make a lot more money. He convinced Summy to travel to the Klondike, to view the property. Both set off together on their journey to the north.
About Vancouver traveling as passengers on the steamer to Skagway Football. On the ship, the cousins learn the attractive cousins Jane and Edith Edgerton know. These have the same destination. Edith wants to work in Dawson at the local hospital as a nurse and Jane scheduled as a gold digger to try their luck. Summy takes a liking to the confident Jane. They meet on the two Texans Hunter and Malone, turn out to be notorious villains. Constantly provocative they seek confrontation. When Jane Hunter then is accosted, Summy engages a hook to the chin.
Upon arrival in Skagway it's just a dog sled on. Ben brings the two Edgerton - cousins to form with them to a travel company. They travel with the Scout Bill manipulated over the Chilkoot Pass in the direction of the Klondike. Along the way they encounter many of the gold rush dilapidated immigrants who risk their lives to get to Klondike.
In Dawson City experienced the cousins of border disputes between the United States and Canada. The offer to purchase the mining company for your claim will only exist if the land is Canadian. The border disputes are fueled by Hunter and Malone, as they want to escape the stricter monitoring of their activities by the Canadian police. On Miles Creek, the two cousins are not working to forfeit their claim to a gold digger for their rights to the property. Edith Edgerton works as a nurse at Dr. Pilcox the hospital in Dawson City and Jane on their claim in the neighborhood of Summy and Ben. However, the success of the two claims is low. The claim of the two cousins is located next to a river in the neighborhood of the claim by Hunter and Malone. It comes to bullying and conflict.
Nevertheless, the prospecting for gold shows first results. However, earthquakes and severe thunderstorms ensure that the river landscape is changing its contours. The river winds its new bed over the claims of the cousins and the crooks. The gold so far obtained is washed away from the river. The gold seekers give up and return to Dawson City. You are planning for the end of winter again return home.
In a hunting trip near Dawson City Summy saves a prospector 's life. However, this later dies in the hospital of Dr. Pilcox. Previously, he confides to the cousins that north of Klondike is a volcano whose inner floor should be covered with gold. You decide with the Scout Bill parking next spring break there. Jane Edgerton aims to support them.
The crooks Malone and Hunter have also experienced by an Indian of the Gold Volcano. They also lead an expedition through there. The two cousins meet with Jane on a volcano and discover that it is active. The engineer Ben had the idea to bring an artificial volcano eruption in order to access according to the following ebb of volcanic activity at the gold.
The group is building a canal to the volcano to water down into the crater and to direct the fire of the volcano. Shortly after completion of the construction project Malone and Hunter have also reached the volcano. After a siege they try to storm the camp of the cousins . Ben ignite the fuses to conduct by an explosion, the water in the volcano. Most of the villains are killed. Except for a small gold nugget gold out of the volcano is flushed into the nearby sea. With the gold nugget in the luggage, the group will return to the gold rush town of Dawson City. The Nuggets just covers the cost of the expedition. In Dawson City experienced Summy and Ben, that was diverted again by the artificial volcanic eruption of the river. It no longer flows over their claim. In the meantime, the water, however, large quantities of gold has been deposited on their property. Both are still rich. Summy marries Jane and Ben marries Edith. Later, all are returning to Montreal.