Books with title Facing the Flag

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Jules Verne's Facing the Flag (1896), a patriotic novel, is part of The Extraordinary Voyages. Thomas Roch, a French inventor, conceives of a destructive weapon, the Fulgurator, which could blow to atoms anything within the zone of twelve thousand square yards. Roch goes to America to sell his invention and there he finds himself commanded to fire the weapon on a French ship.

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This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Brilliant French inventor Thomas Roch has designed the Fulgurator, a weapon so powerful that "the state which acquired it would become absolute master of earth and ocean." Unable to sell his unproven idea to any government, Roch loses his sanity. The U.S. tucks him away in a luxurious asylum, where he is visited by Count d'Artigas, who is actually Ker Karraje, a notorious Malagasy pirate with a crew of escaped convicts, military and naval deserters.Karraje leads a double life under the alias of "Count d'Artigas," a pleasure-loving but respectable noble, who regular visits East Coast ports aboard his schooner Ebba. To outward appearances, Ebba has no propulsion other than its sails; in truth, it is pulled by an underwater tug. Karraje and crew pull up to becalmed sailing vessels and board them without warning. They rob and massacre crews, scuttle the ships, and thereby add to the list "unexplained disappearances."Karraje hears of Roch and his invention and decides to gain possession of both...N.D. Author Services [NDAS] serves independent authors and self-publishers, organizations, businesses, corporations and government divisions globally. Services include structural analysis, editing, proofreading, layout (print, ebook, cms content, etc.), covers (premade and custom), mockups and information graphics, plus other custom services.

Jules Verne's Facing the Flag (1896), a patriotic novel, is part of The Extraordinary Voyages. Thomas Roch, a French inventor, conceives of a destructive weapon, the Fulgurator, which could blow to atoms anything within the zone of twelve thousand square yards. Roch goes to America to sell his invention and there he finds himself commanded to fire the weapon on a French ship.

This book was originally published prior to 1923, and represents a reproduction of an important historical work, maintaining the same format as the original work. While some publishers have opted to apply OCR (optical character recognition) technology to the process, we believe this leads to sub-optimal results (frequent typographical errors, strange characters and confusing formatting) and does not adequately preserve the historical character of the original artifact. We believe this work is culturally important in its original archival form. While we strive to adequately clean and digitally enhance the original work, there are occasionally instances where imperfections such as blurred or missing pages, poor pictures or errant marks may have been introduced due to either the quality of the original work or the scanning process itself. Despite these occasional imperfections, we have brought it back into print as part of our ongoing global book preservation commitment, providing customers with access to the best possible historical reprints. We appreciate your understanding of these occasional imperfections, and sincerely hope you enjoy seeing the book in a format as close as possible to that intended by the original publisher.