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Introduction
James De Mille: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
A Kosekin Glossary
A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
Appendix A: Antarctic Exploration
Antarctica Exploration Timeline
From James Cook and Tobias Furneaux, A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World (1777)
Book 1, Chapters 2-3, January 1773
Book 2, Chapter 6, January 1774
From Charles Wilkes, Synopsis of the Cruise of the U.S. Exploring Expedition During the Years 1838-1842 (1842)
From Captain Sir James Clark Ross, A Voyage of Discovery in the Southern and Antarctic Regions (During the Years 1839-43) (1847)
Volume 1, Chapter VII, 10 January 1841
Volume 1, Chapter VII, 27 January 1841
Volume 1, Chapter VIII, 28 January 1841
Appendix B: Nineteenth-Century Geology and Paleontology
From Richard Owen, Geology and the Inhabitants of the Ancient World (1854)
Pterodactyle Iguanodon Hylaeosaurus Megalosaurus Teleosaurus Enaliosauria (Ichthyosaurus and Plesiosaurus)
Labyrinthodon
From Louis Figuier, The World Before the Deluge (1866)
"whale of the saurians"
Ideal Landscapes
Coal Period Vegetation: From Louis Figuier, The World Before the Deluge (1866)
From Elijah H. Burritt, Atlas Designed to Illustrate the Geography of the Heavens (1845)
Appendix C: Savages and Cannibals
From James Cook, A Voyage Towards the South Pole and Round the World (1777)
Volume 1, Book 2, Chapter 5, November 1773, Queen Charlotte’s Sound, New Zealand Volume 2, Book 3, Chapter 5, August 1774, Vanuatu Archipelago
From Charles Darwin, Journal of Researches into the Geology and Natural History of the Various Countries Visited by H.M.S. Beagle (1846)
Appendix D: Historical Mythology: Caves and Troglodytes
From Plato, The Republic of Plato (c. 380 BCE): The Allegory of the Cave
From Penny Cyclopaedia of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge (1843)
From Thomas Hodgkin, "On the Ancient Inhabitants of the Canary Islands" (1848)
Appendix E: Scientific Romance and Lost Worlds
From John Cleves Symmes Jr., Symzonia; Voyage of Discovery (1820)
From Edgar Allan Poe, "The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym" (1838)
Preface A History of Antarctic Exploration
From Edward Bulwer Lytton, The Coming Race: or The New Utopia (1871)
Orientalism Gender
From Jules Verne, A Journey into the Interior of the Earth (1877)
From Samuel Butler, Erewhon or Over the Range (1880)
From Jonathan Swift, Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver (1726)
Appendix F: Reviews
New York Times, 21 May 1888
Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 3 June 1888
The Week, July 1888
The Athenaeum, 15 December 1888
Works Cited and Recommended Reading
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