Canada (French) - A Strange Manuscript found in a Copper Cylinder - James De Mille

How I found the book:

I found this book in a super cool second hand book stall by the canal in a large gentrified courtyard near Camden Market in London. Now I know French Canada isn't a country in it's own right. But my other half is half French and and would love to visit the French parts of Canada and the French parts of the USA also. So for this project i'm happy to split Canada and French Canada. And this book looked very intriguing due to is age, having been published in 1888! And i'm becoming quite the fan of 19th century science fiction.

The Physical Book:
The book did stand out to me, as i was just browsing the uber cool, gentrified second hand book store. The store was frequented with young hip dudes, with wispy moustaches, bad haircuts, piss poor tattoos of cartoon characters. These dudes were probably on dates, trying to impress their partners, who had equally bad haircuts and awkwardly worn clothes. Impressing each other and trying to find old copies of Kafka, and dismissing digital books and audio book, as they don't have the 'same vibe'. After picking the book after being struck by the authors name. A quick look at the inside cover told me it was Canadian, and a quick google lead me to French Canada, so it was a easy purchase.

The Story:
It was a proper old school adventure story, with shipwrecks, cannibalistic tribes, dinosaurs, love triangles and flying beasts. But their is also a touching love story interwoven with all the adventuring. There is some deeper satirical content dealing with greed and desire to better ones self at the cost of others. I raced through the book and when I only had about 30 pages left I had no idea how it was going to end, and was concerned the ending was going to be awful. But the ending fitted with the rest of the book, and was nicely wrapped up, but with the possibility of more. But the book was published posthumously so there was no sequel.

How Canadian:
I'm not sure, it had a definite first world feel to the story with plenty of 'By Jove' comments made by the characters. I guess it felt more British to me. But i don't really know much about Canada

Conclusion:
I really enjoyed this, and it was a great example of a 19th century science fiction adventure story. I hate making comparisons when writing about books, but I think I preferred this to some Jules Verne stories. Jules Verne's ideas and stories were more exciting, but too many lengthy scientific explanations. 

Read it, enjoy it!