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Old 08-09-2020, 12:29 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by JSWolf View Post
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

Ron Miller is the illustrator for that Baen Edition.

Here's more from that link:

"This special edition of Jules Verne's classic novel corrects more than 3000 errors in the original 1872 English translation and replaces the 23% of text that had been expurgated by the original translator for political, ideological and other reasons. In addition, there are nearly two dozen illustrations created especially for this edition by Ron Miller, cutaway views and schematics of the Nautilus, maps, details of Verne's diving suits and many other special features."

It doesn't specifically state that he is the translator. He appears to be the main editor for a series of classic titles called "The Ron Miller Science Fiction Classics Collection." It looks like he took the original English translation and restored those missing pages, in addition to correcting a large number of errors.

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