The French novel L'Étonnante
aventure de Hareton Ironcastle (1922) by J.H. Rosny has
been translated and retold by Philip José Farmer.
According to the book: "Farmer has told it in his own words, following
Rosny judiciously and adding certain surprising embellishments of his
own."
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Somewhere in the unexplored
heart of Africa a part of this Earth had been taken over by an
intelligence from outer space. Such was the message that reached the
explorer Hareton Ironcastle, member of the famous Baltimore Gun Club.
In that hidden and transformed valley would now be found monsters and
pre-humans not to be seen anywhere else.
Such a challenge could not be
ignored, and the account of Ironcastle's expedition of daring but
inexperienced amateurs became one of the classic novels of the French
writer, J.H. Rosny, who was a contemporary of Verne, Wells, and Edgar
Rice Burroughs.
Now Philip José Farmer, Hugo winner and chronicler of the
adventures of Tarzan and Doc Savage, has translated and retold Rosny's
novel, making it a marvel adventure novel to stand alongside the works
of Burroughs, Haggard and Farmer himself.
(DAW Books)
FIRST PUBLICATION
New York, NY: DAW Books
Science Fiction, No. 187 / UY1225
SBN 451-UY1225-125
paperback (17,5×10,5cm)
03/1976 (1st)
03/1976 (1st) [Canadian printing]
175
$ 1.25
Roy Krenkel
Illustrated by Roy Krenkel. The Canadian printing has exactly the same
data as the US edition, it only states 'Published by The New American
Library of Canada Limited'. According to DAW policy it is counted as a
second printing.
Roy Krenkel
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New York, NY: DAW Books
Science Fiction, UJ1545
ISBN 0-87997-545-8
paperback (18×10,5cm)
not dated [= 06/1980] (3rd)
175
$ 1.95
Roy Krenkel
Illustrated by Roy Krenkel. Later printing indicated in a row of
numbers on the copyright page.
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UK
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London: Gateway / Orion
ISBN 978-0-575-11986-4
ebook
08/2012
(167)
£ 2.99 ($ 4.73)
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No credit to the original author J.H. Rosny.
GERMANY
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German: Das
phantastische Land
Frankfurt/M & Berlin: Ullstein
Science Fiction, no. 31168
ISBN 3-548-31168-7
paperback (18×11,5cm)
07/1988
144
DM 9,80
Ronald M. Hahn
Frank Ecker
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RUSSIA
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Russian: Айронкастл Ayronkastl
in Древняя Африка
in Drevnyaya Afrika
St. Petersburg: Северо-Запад (Severo-Zapad)
Приключения (синяя серия)
ISBN 978-5-93835-626-9
hardcover [no dustjacket] (21,5x14,5cm)
05/2017
832
not priced
uncredited
D. Jusko
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