Title: A strange manuscript found in a copper cylinder
First published: 1888
Description: Four men aboard a boat find the titular strange manuscript in a cylindar floating in the sea. It turns out to be the story of Adam More, a sailor stranded in a savage hidden country in Antarctica. In this "nation" are everything from cannibals to kings and the bizarre citizens love death and poverty as other nations love life and prosperity. Can Adam escape...?
Subjects: Canadian fiction (English), CIHM, Roman canadien-anglais, ICMH, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, History, FICTION, Fantasy, General, Canadian fiction, Canadian literature, Fiction, science fiction, general, Sea stories, Utopias, Canadian Science fiction, Fiction, science fiction, action & adventure, Science fiction, English literature
Places: Antarctica
People: Adam More
Time periods: 1843, 19th century