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Originally Posted by pwalker8
July/August tends to be a bit of a dead period for new books, at least for me. In previous years, I've delved into indies, but really didn't see much that interested me this year.
I grew up reading the kids versions of the various Jules Verne books, so I decided to try to find some good translations of some of my favorite books. I got -
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea - The Frederic Paul Walter translation
Around the World in 80 Days - The Frederic Paul Walter translation
Five Weeks in a Balloon - The Frederick Paul Walter translation
The Mysterious Island - Sidney Kravitz translation
For the most part these translations are suppose to be the translations of the full edition, rather than the edited down versions that were in the kids version. Doing research on which translation to get, it was interesting how different some of the translations were from each other.
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The Frederic Paul Walter translation of
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is not the definitive edition. The definitive edition is the Ron Miller edition available at Baen.
https://www.baen.com/20-000-leagues-under-the-sea.html