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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Another uncanny insight into the future by Verne.,
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This review is from: Into the Niger Bend: Book One of the Barsac Mission (Hardcover)
At the moment when the existence of the radio was only a rumor travelers in southern Saharan Africa are guests in a technologically advanced and surprisingly modern city being built in the desert unknown to the Western European world. Verne forsees the use of helicopters and explosive bullets in warfare against local native peoples in the surrounding countryside as well as tunnel boring machines similar to that used to construct the channel tunnel and other major recent tunnels. I read Into the Niger Bend in about 1960 in conjunction with City in the Sahara, the companion volume. My review above may have mixed elements of these 2 connected stories. At the time the 2 books were in the collection of the North Hollywood branch of the Los Angeles Public Library. I highly recommend them.
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Into the Niger Bend: Book One of the Barsac Mission by Jules Verne (Hardcover - June 6, 1976)
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