The Mighty Orinoco

The Mighty Orinoco

Infobox Book
name = The Mighty Orinoco
title_orig = Le Superbe Orénoque
translator = Stanford Luce (2002)


image_caption = Cover of the first illustrated edition.
author = Jules Verne
illustrator = Georges Roux
cover_artist =
country = France
language = French
series = Voyages Extraordinaires #45
subject =
genre = Adventure novel
publisher = Pierre-Jules Hetzel
pub_date = 1898
english_pub_date =
media_type = Print
pages =
isbn =
oclc =
preceded_by = An Antarctic Mystery
followed_by = The Will of an Eccentric

The Mighty Orinoco ( _fr. Le Superbe Orénoque) is a novel by French writer Jules Verne (1828–1905), first published in 1898 as a part of the Voyages Extraordinaires. It tells the story of young Jean's journey up the Orinoco River in Venezuela with his protector, Sergeant Martial, in order to find Colonel de Kermor, who disappeared some years before.


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