De Zuidster, het land der diamanten by Jules Verne
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"De Zuidster, het land der diamanten" by Jules Verne is a novel published in 1884. Set in South Africa's diamond fields, the story follows French mining engineer Victor Cyprien as he attempts to win the hand of Alice Watkins, daughter of a wealthy landowner. When his artificial diamond experiment appears successful, producing a massive 243-carat gem called The Star of the South, Victor's triumph turns to disaster as the diamond mysteriously vanishes
during a celebration banquet. A desperate chase across the dangerous Veld ensues to recover the stolen treasure. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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About this eBook
| Author | Verne, Jules, 1828-1905 |
|---|---|
| Title | De Zuidster, het land der diamanten |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vanished_Diamond |
| Note | Wikipedia page about this book: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Der_S%C3%BCdstern_oder_Das_Land_der_Diamanten |
| Credits |
Produced by Jeroen Hellingman and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net/ |
| Reading Level | Reading ease score: 68.8 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. |
| Language | Dutch |
| LoC Class | PQ: Language and Literatures: Romance literatures: French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese |
| Subject | Diamond mines and mining -- South Africa -- Fiction |
| Category | Text |
| eBook-No. | 17580 |
| ISBN (HTML) | 979-8-238-17580-5 |
| Release Date | Jan 23, 2006 |
| Copyright | Public domain in the USA. |
| Downloads | 410 downloads in the last 30 days. |
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