"Le pays des fourrures" by Jules Verne is an adventure novel published in 1873. In 1859, officers of the Hudson's Bay Company venture north of the 70th parallel to establish a fort in the Canadian Arctic for fur trading. During a solar eclipse observation, they discover their settlement sits not on solid ground but on an ice floe that breaks away from the continent, carrying them adrift toward uncertain fate in a frozen wilderness. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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