Record #:

27945

Author(s):

Davis, Junius W., Jr.

Abstract:

New Bern is the locale of the 1896 science fiction novel, For the Flag or Facing the Flag, written by Jules Verne. The story is about a missile inventor who is kidnapped near New Bern and taken aboard a schooner via submarine in the Neuse River. In the story, Verne writes of New Bern, Pamlico Sound, and other notable areas in eastern North Carolina.

Source:

Journal of the New Bern Historical Society (NoCar F 264 N5 J66), Vol. 7 Issue 2, Nov 1994, p14-17, il, bibl

Subject(s):

Novelists; Books