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562. The underground city  or  The Black Indies – Jules Verne

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The underground city  or  The Black Indies 

Jules Verne

 

Presented in LARGE SIZE FONTS ! , which ensures comfortable reading !

Pages:220

Paper back edition / Unabridged ( full version)

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The underground city  or  The Black Indies is a novel by the French writer Jules Verne  .

Covering a time span of over ten years, this novel follows the fortunes of the mining community of Aberfoyle near Stirling, Scotland. Receiving a letter from an old colleague, mining engineer James Starr sets off for the old Aberfoyle mine, thought to have been mined out ten years earlier. Starr finds mine overman Simon Ford and his family living in a cottage deep inside the mine; he is astonished to find that Ford has made a discovery of the presence of a large vein of coal. Accompanying Simon Ford are his wife, Madge, and adult son, Harry.

From the outset, mysterious and unexplained happenings start to occur around the main characters, attributed initially to goblins and firemaidens.

Soon after the discovery of the new vein of coal, the community is revitalised with a whole town growing up around the underground lake called Loch Malcolm.

Suspicious of a malevolent force at work, Harry continues his explorations of the cavern system, where down a deep shaft, he discovers a young orphan girl ….READ ON….

 

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