Jules Verne...

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Jules Verne wrote stories with the Civil War as a backdrop and in other stories, his characters had civil war backstories... His first shoot was a book called "The Blockade Runners" and romance/science storyline...

https://devilofhistory.wordpress.com/2013/01/07/jules-verne-takes-on-the-american-civil-war/

Here at The Devil of History we were delighted to run across a new edition of Jules Verne’s first take on the American Civil War. The Blockade Runners (Les forceurs deblocus) is a sort of scientific romance—short on the science, long on the romance—that Verne wrote in 1865. It’s one of those classic stories: Boy plans to run the blockade and sell contraband arms to southern slaveholders; Boy meets abolitionist Girl whose father is rotting in a Southern prison; Boy decides to save Girl’s father; Boy does so, while still selling contraband arms to southern slaveholders; Girl swoons; couple marries; Boy’s uncle makes 375% profit on the blockade-running. Yes, Verne really was that sympathetic to social injustice.

Still, The Blockade Runners shows some signs of the genius in Verne’s later work, like with the bluff American servant Crockston, a sort of muscular Passepartout-with-aplomb. Verne unleashes a special sort of enthusiasm in his descriptions of The Dolphin, the Boy’s super-swift Clyde-built blockade runner. If you ever wondered what a French adventure novelist would have thought of the American Civil War, The Blockade Runners is your book: a fascinating trip into a world where ships are fast, women are winsome, and the War is just some ongoing unpleasantness.

A link to it at goggles books you can read: https://books.google.com/books/abou...ver&source=kp_read_button#v=onepage&q&f=false




https://www.amazon.com/dp/1515424286/?tag=civilwartalkc-20

He took another stab at in this book:
NORTH AGAINST SOUTH A TALE OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR (or)
Texar's Revenge or North Against South





Texar and Burbank are bitter enemies, Burbank's northern view of slavery as an evil being an unpopular stance with Texar and the rest of the community, deep in the Confederate States of America. On top of this disagreement, though, Texar is angry at Burbank for past legal troubles Burbank has brought upon Texar, and, despite Texar inventing a perfect alibi that allows him to escape conviction, Texar feels the need for vengeance and eventually becomes a prominent and powerful member of the Jacksonville community. Using this newfound power, Texar turns the townsfolk against Burbank and leads a mob that destroys the Burbank plantation, known as Camdless Bay. Burbank's daughter Dy and caretaker Zermah are both kidnapped by a man claiming to be Texar and are purportedly taken to a place in the Everglades called Carneral Island. En route, and after enlisting the help of the United States Navy, they find a separate group searching for Texar in response to crimes that apparently happened in the same time as the ones at Camdless Bay but in a distant location. This opens up the realization that there is one real Texar and one who is not, and the search continues now, not only for Dy and Zermah, but for the answer to this mystery.

This too has a google to the book you can read... https://books.google.com/books?id=c4okBQAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=Jules+Verne+North+against+South&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiCy_3I8qLhAhVEJKwKHZyoDAkQ6AEIKDAA#v=onepage&q=Jules Verne North against South&f=false

Jules Verne was a fan of America...

 

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Here the complete work of North Against South :

https://archive.org/details/NorthAgainstSouth/page/n9

This copy may be easier for some to read....

Jules Verne had another book with the civil war as a backdrop...

From the Earth to the Moon




Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Verne’s prophetic novel of man’s race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen.

When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that they build a gun big enough to launch a rocket to the moon. But when Barbicane’s adversary places a huge wager that the project will fail and a daring volunteer elevates the mission to a “manned” flight, one man’s dream turns into an international space race.

A story of rip-roaring action, humor, and wild imagination, From the Earth to the Moon is as uncanny in its accuracy and as filled with authentic detail

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0553214209/?tag=civilwartalkc-20

Here is Google Books readable: https://books.google.com/books?id=W...&q=Jules Verne from earth to the moon&f=false

 

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I found this about Jules Verne being a fan of America... Jules Verne America... an interesting read... and short...

http://jv.gilead.org.il/evans/JVs America (article).html

As an author who once quipped “In the beginning ... God created America in six days and rested on the seventh” (A Floating Island 67), Jules Verne’s lifelong fascination with the United States had an indelible influence on his writing.1 Although he made only one trip to America (voyaging to New York in 1867 aboard the huge steamship The Great Eastern and then making a brief trek northward to visit Niagara Falls), more than a third of the 60+ novels in Verne’s series Voyages extraordinaires dans les mondes connus et inconnus[Extraordinary Journeys in Known and Unknown Worlds] take place in whole or in part on American soil. And the number of Vernian heroes and heroines that are of American nationality—from the retired Civil War artillerymen of the Baltimore Gun Club in From the Earth to the Moon (1865) to the ever-faithful Dolly Branican of Mistress Branican (1891)—is far greater than those who are French.2 It must also be acknowledged, however, that Verne’s feelings about America evolved dramatically during his lifetime. Many of his later works from the 1880s and 1890s, for example, depict a United States that is far different from the one found in his earlier and more well known novels from the 1860s and 1870s.

Why was Verne, at least initially, so enamored with America and all things American? According to noted Verne scholar Jean Chesneaux,
Verne was fascinated by the nineteenth-century United States, by the American character, and by American society. For him it was as if the United States stood on the frontier between “known worlds” and “unknown worlds” ... [W]ith hardly any ties to the past and its rapid demographic, technical, and economic development, it
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constituted a futurist theme in itself. In the world of the mid-nineteenth century, it was the United States which came closest to the “model for development” which Verne dreamed for humanity. (150)

The plot... notes from wiki...

The plot focuses on the adventures of five Americans on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. During the American Civil War, five northern prisoners of war decide to escape, during the siege of Richmond, Virginia, by hijacking a balloon.

After flying in a great storm for several days, the group crash-lands on a cliff-bound, volcanic, unknown island, described as being located at 34°57′S 150°30′W, about 2,500 kilometres (1,600 mi) east of New Zealand. They name it "Lincoln Island" in honor of their president, Abraham Lincoln.


https://www.amazon.com/dp/1949982920/?tag=civilwartalkc-20

 

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I found the tell where Verne chooses a place in Florida for his Moon Gun... Litha is the place today...

Eerie Revelations About Role Of Lithia, Florida, In Moon Landing

If science fiction writer Jules Verne had his way, man's first trip to the moon would have been launched from Lithia, Florida.

patch.com

 

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Here is what Jules Verne considers himself...

Jules Verne and His Geographical Novels | Worlds Revealed

Jules Verne was a prolific writer. He is often referred to as the “father of science fiction.” Verne became famous for his Voyages Extraordinaires, a series of 54 novels that were originally published by the French publisher and author Pierre-Jules Hetzel. The most widely read novels from the...

blogs.loc.gov

Jules Verne was born in Nantes, France in 1828. He was fascinated with geography throughout his life and was active in the French Geographical Society. Verne referred to his books as “geographical novels.” The novels in the Voyages Extraordinaires include numerous maps and panoramic views. The texts are filled with detailed geographical and geological descriptions. Note the following text about the course of the submarine Nautilus from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea:

 

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Here is a women who did Jules Verne around the world in 80 days in 72... Nellie Bly..

Nellie Bly - Wikipedia

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Around the World in Seventy-Two Days - Wikipedia

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Around the world in 72 days: how journalist Nellie Bly became the real Phileas Fogg

Nellie Bly was a 19th-century American journalist who was told it would be impossible for her to make it around the world in 80 days like the fictional Phileas Fogg – then did it all the same. Pat Kinsella tells the story of how she achieved this record feat quicker than Jules Verne's imagined...

www.historyextra.com