The Barsac Mission

{{short description|1919 novel by Jules Verne}}

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| author = Jules Verne

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| title_orig = L'Étonnante Aventure
de la mission Barsac

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| translator = I. O. Evans

| illustrator = George Roux

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| country = France

| language = French

| series = Voyages extraordinaires

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| genre = adventure; science fiction

| set_in = West Africa

| published = {{start date|df=yes|1919}} (posthumously)

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| english_pub_date = 1960

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| preceded_by = The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz

| followed_by = Paris in the Twentieth Century

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The Barsac Mission ({{langx|fr|L'Étonnante Aventure de la Mission Barsac}}) is a novel attributed to Jules Verne and written (with inspiration from two unfinished Verne manuscripts) by his son Michel Verne. First serialized in 1914, it was published in book form by Hachette in 1919.{{cite web|last=Dehs|first=Volker|title=The Complete Jules Verne Bibliography: X. Apocrypha|url=http://jv.gilead.org.il/biblio/apocrypha.html|work=Jules Verne Collection|publisher=Zvi Har’El|access-date=11 February 2013 |author2=Jean-Michel Margot |author3=Zvi Har’El}} An English adaptation by I. O. Evans was published in 1960 in two volumes, Into the Niger Bend and The City in the Sahara.{{cite journal|last=Evans|first=Arthur B.|title=A Bibliography of Jules Verne's English Translations|journal=Science Fiction Studies|date=March 2005|volume=XXXII|series=1|issue=95|pages=105–141|url=http://jv.gilead.org.il/evans/VerneTrans%28biblio%29.html|access-date=11 February 2013}} It includes a hidden city, called in English "Blackland", in the Sahara Desert.

Because of Jules Vernes's interest in Esperanto,Delcourt, M. - Amouroux, J. (1987): Jules Verne kaj la Internacia Lingvo. - La Brita Esperantisto, vol. 83, number 878, pages 300-301. London. Republished from Revue Française d'Esperanto, nov.-dec., 1977Haszpra O. (1999): Jules Verne pri la lingvo Esperanto - in hungarian: - Scienca Revuo, 3, 35-38. Niederglat the original draft, by himself, called "Voyage d'étude", contained references to the language.about that: Abel Montagut, Jules Verne kaj esperanto (la lasta romano), Beletra Almanako, number 5, June 2009, New York, pages 78-95. When his son finished the work, he removed those references.