Jules Verne (1828-1905), the world's most translated author, wrote numerous classics of adventure and science fiction, including The Meteor Hunt, Light at the End of the World, The Golden Volcano , and Magellania , which are all available from the University of Nebraska Press. Marie-Therese Noiset is a professor emerita of French and translation at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA. She has also translated Caught in the Storm by Seydou Badian. Volker Dehs is a German literary critic and leading Jules Verne specialist and biographer.
We're in the midst of a marvelous Verne renaissance... The Self-Propelled Island is a novel of great appeal, especially to Americans: by sending northern and southern aristocrats to sea in literally the same boat, it not only features one of Verne's fabulous futuristic vehicles but also unfolds one of his shrewdest, wittiest political satires. -Frederick Paul Walter, Verne translator and former vice president of the North American Jules Verne Society -- Frederick Paul Walter