 Original illustration of Jules Verne’s Voyages Extraordinaires | |
| Author | Jules Verne |
|---|---|
| Original title | La Jangada - Huit Cents lieues sur l'Amazone |
| Illustrator | Léon Benett |
| Language | French |
| Series | The Extraordinary Voyages #21 |
| Genre | Adventure novel |
| Publisher | Pierre-Jules Hetzel |
Publication date | 1881 |
| Publication place | France |
Published in English | 1881 |
| Media type | Print (Hardback) |
| Preceded by | The Steam House |
| Followed by | Godfrey Morgan |
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (French: La Jangada - Huit Cents lieues sur l'Amazone) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1881. It has also been published as The Giant Raft.[1]
It is an adventure novel, involving how Joam Garral, a ranch owner living near the Peruvian-Brazilian border on the Amazon River, is forced to travel downstream when his past catches up with him. Most of the novel is situated on a large jangada (a Brazilian timber raft) that is used by Garral and his family to float to Belém, at the river's mouth. Many aspects of the raft, scenery, and journey are described in detail.
It was adapted into the 1993 film Eight Hundred Leagues Down the Amazon.
- ^ Evans, Arthur B. (March 2005). "A Bibliography of Jules Verne's English Translations". Science Fiction Studies. 1. XXXII (95): 105–141. Archived from the original on 30 May 2019. Retrieved 24 February 2013.