Les Indes Noires by Jules Verne

"Les Indes Noires" by Jules Verne is a novel published in 1877. When engineer James Starr receives a mysterious summons from former mine foreman Simon Ford, he returns to the supposedly exhausted coal mines of Aberfoyle, Scotland. Together they discover a vast new seam beneath the abandoned pits, establishing an underground city called Coal-City. But inexplicable phenomena threaten the operation, and deep in the tunnels they find Nell, a young girl who has never seen daylight. (This is an automatically generated summary.)

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Author Verne, Jules, 1828-1905
Title Les Indes Noires
Note Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Child_of_the_Cavern fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Les_Indes_noires
Credits Produced by Norman Wolcott
Reading Level Reading ease score: 72.5 (7th grade). Fairly easy to read.
Language French
LoC Class PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese
Subject Coal mines and mining -- Fiction
Subject Scotland -- Fiction
Subject Adventure stories
Subject Civilization, Subterranean -- Fiction
Subject Fantasy fiction, French
Subject Imaginary places
Category Text
eBook-No. 5081
Release Date
Last Update Oct 5, 2014
Copyright Public domain in the USA.
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