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Travelling backwards. (Newly discovered works of Jules Verne)

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From: The Economist (US)
Date: 19890819
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Travelling backwards

JULES VERNE was not kind to his fellow citizens of Nantes. He described them as "fools building on sand ... merchants of rice and sugar who know how to count." His home town discovered this unflattering view only after a most unmercantile decision. In 1981 it paid the author's heirs FFr6m ($912,000) for a trunkful of his manuscripts. They yielded up two surprises: a collection of poems (from which the above lines are quoted) and a travel book, VOYAGE A RECULONS EN ANGLETERRE ET EN ECOSSE*. Both are now in print for the first time, the poems under the title ...

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