Joyous Miseries of Three Travellers in Scandinavia
Jules Verne · William Butcher
Mar 2022 · Voices of Today · Narrated by Patrick Barker
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Joyous Miseries of Three Travellers in Scandinavia
By Jules Verne
Translated with an introduction, notes and
appendices by William Butcher
Read by Patrick Barker
In 1861 a struggling playwright from Nantes travelled to the wildest parts of Norway with two friends. The experience transformed him, opening his eyes to exotic adventures – and to a new mode of writing. The sole surviving chapter of his autobiographical work, completed at about the same time as he met his lifelong publisher and surely his most personal piece, brilliantly recounts his reasons for travelling and his preparations in a henceforth “suffocating” Paris. None of his subsequent masterpieces, but especially Journey to the Centre of the Earth and Captain Hatteras, would have been possible without Verne’s “Joyous Miseries”.
Production copyright 2022 Voices of Today
By Jules Verne
Translated with an introduction, notes and
appendices by William Butcher
Read by Patrick Barker
In 1861 a struggling playwright from Nantes travelled to the wildest parts of Norway with two friends. The experience transformed him, opening his eyes to exotic adventures – and to a new mode of writing. The sole surviving chapter of his autobiographical work, completed at about the same time as he met his lifelong publisher and surely his most personal piece, brilliantly recounts his reasons for travelling and his preparations in a henceforth “suffocating” Paris. None of his subsequent masterpieces, but especially Journey to the Centre of the Earth and Captain Hatteras, would have been possible without Verne’s “Joyous Miseries”.
Production copyright 2022 Voices of Today
About the author
Jules Verne (1828 - 1905) was a science fiction writer.
Patrick Barker is an audiobook narrator, located in Sydney, New South Wales.
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