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During the American Civil War, the coast of the southern states is largely blocked and trade in cotton collapses. A young merchant devises a plan to take advantage of this situation and make a profit.The ship, called Dolphin, is specially designed for this purpose and is equipped with the latest technology and a selected crew, including Jenny Halliburt, dressed as a boy. Will she dissuade James from his greed for profit? And what are her servant's plans?

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. The Clyde was the first river whose waters were lashed into foam by a steam-boat. It was in 1812 when the steamer called the Comet ran between Glasgow and Greenock, at the speed of six miles an hour. Since that time more than a million of steamers or packet-boats have plied this Scotch river, and the inhabitants of Glasgow must be as familiar as any people with the wonders of steam navigation.

The Civil War is tearing apart the North American United States. The Union Fleet blocked the Confederate seacoast, interrupting all sea trade, and European merchants suffer big losses from this. One of Glasgow's trading houses is building a high-speed ship capable of breaking through the blockade and bringing unheard of profits. But on board the ship, not only those seeking benefits will set sail.

"The Blockade Runners" by Jules Verne (translated by N. D'Anvers). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828 – March 24, 1905) was a French author who pioneered the science fictiongenre. He is best known for his novels Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travels before air travel and practical submarines were invented, and before practical means of space travel had been devised. He is the second most translated author in the world (after Agatha Christie). Some of his books have also been made into live-action and animated films and television shows. Verne is often referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction", a title sometimes shared with Hugo Gernsback and H. G. Wells.-wikipedia

The Blockade Runners" by Jules Verne was published in 1865. It tells the story of a British blockade runner during the end of the American Civil War. A ship called “The Dolphin” was about 1,500 tons and was to have very powerful engines, one of the fastest ships afloat. The Glasgow ship owner devises an adventurous plan to run the Union blockade of southern ports during the Civil War, in order to bring a load of cotton back to his city's 25,000 idle looms. Illustrations included.

The Blockade Runners is a translation of Les forceursde blocus (1871). The Blockade Runners, a novella, was includedalong with A Floating City in the first english and french editionsof this work. This translation, which follows that of Sampson and Low(UK) and Scribners (US) is by "N. D'Anvers", pseudonymn for Mrs. ArthurBell (d. 1933) who also translated other Verne books. It is alsoincluded in the fifteen volume Parke edition of the works of JulesVerne (1911). There is another translation by Henry Frith which waspublished by Routledge (1876).Both of these stories are about ships; Floating City about thelargest ship of the time, the Great Eastern, and Blockade Runnersabout one of the fastest, the Dolphin.