# An Antarctic Mystery — Chapters explained

> Chapter companions for An Antarctic Mystery by Jules Verne.

- [I: The Kerguelen Islands](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_antarctic_mystery_se/chapters/i-the-kerguelen-islands.md): The narrator, Mr. Jeorling, describes his stay on the Kerguelen Islands (also called the Desolation Islands) in the southern Indian Ocean, where he has been conducting geological and mineralogical studies. He lodges at t
- [The Schooner Halbrane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_antarctic_mystery_se/chapters/ii-the-schooner-halbrane.md): Jeorling learns about the schooner Halbrane from Atkins and later sees it arrive at Christmas Harbour. He attempts to secure passage aboard the ship, but Captain Len Guy is reserved and initially refuses to take passenge
- [Captain Len Guy](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_antarctic_mystery_se/chapters/iii-captain-len-guy.md): Jeorling, frustrated by Captain Len Guy's initial refusal to take him as a passenger on the Halbrane, confronts the captain on the quay. Despite a polite but firm rejection, Jeorling's curiosity is piqued by the captain'
- [From the Kerguelen Isles to Prince Edward Island](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_antarctic_mystery_se/chapters/iv-from-the-kerguelen-isles-to-prince-edward-island.md): Captain Len Guy passionately defends the reality of Edgar Poe's narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, claiming to have found a bottle with a letter at Kerguelen and to have sought Dirk Peters in Illinois. Jeorling listens skep
- [Edgar Poe's Romance](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_antarctic_mystery_se/chapters/v-edgar-poe-s-romance.md): Jeorling provides a detailed summary of Edgar Allan Poe's novel 'The Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym', recounting Pym's early life, his friendship with Augustus Barnard, their disastrous voyage on the Ariel, Pym's secret

> 22 more chapter companions — [open a free preview](https://www.betterreads.dev/reader?bookId=an_antarctic_mystery_se_992kb&preview=1) to unlock the rest.

- [An Ocean Waif](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_antarctic_mystery_se/chapters/vi-an-ocean-waif.md)
- [VII: Tristan d’Acunha](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_antarctic_mystery_se/chapters/vii-tristan-d-acunha.md)
- [Bound for the Falklands](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_antarctic_mystery_se/chapters/viii-bound-for-the-falklands.md)
- [IX: Fitting Out the Halbrane](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_antarctic_mystery_se/chapters/ix-fitting-out-the-halbrane.md)
- [X: The Outset of the Enterprise](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_antarctic_mystery_se/chapters/x-the-outset-of-the-enterprise.md)
- [From the Sandwich Islands to the Polar Circle](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_antarctic_mystery_se/chapters/xi-from-the-sandwich-islands-to-the-polar-circle.md)
- [Between the Polar Circle and the Ice Wall](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_antarctic_mystery_se/chapters/xii-between-the-polar-circle-and-the-ice-wall.md)
- [Along the Front of the Icebergs](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_antarctic_mystery_se/chapters/xiii-along-the-front-of-the-icebergs.md)
- [XIV: A Voice in a Dream](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_antarctic_mystery_se/chapters/xiv-a-voice-in-a-dream.md)
- [XV: Bennet Islet](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_antarctic_mystery_se/chapters/xv-bennet-islet.md)
- [XVI: Tsalal Island](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_antarctic_mystery_se/chapters/xvi-tsalal-island.md)
- [And Pym?](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_antarctic_mystery_se/chapters/xvii-and-pym.md)
- [A Revelation](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_antarctic_mystery_se/chapters/xviii-a-revelation.md)
- [Land?](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_antarctic_mystery_se/chapters/xix-land.md)
- [XX: “Unmerciful Disaster”](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_antarctic_mystery_se/chapters/xx-unmerciful-disaster.md)
- [Amid the Mists](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_antarctic_mystery_se/chapters/xxi-amid-the-mists.md)
- [XXII: In Camp](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_antarctic_mystery_se/chapters/xxii-in-camp.md)
- [XXIII: Found at Last](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_antarctic_mystery_se/chapters/xxiii-found-at-last.md)
- [Eleven Years in a Few Pages](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_antarctic_mystery_se/chapters/xxiv-eleven-years-in-a-few-pages.md)
- [XXV: “We Were the First”](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_antarctic_mystery_se/chapters/xxv-we-were-the-first.md)
- [A Little Remnant](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_antarctic_mystery_se/chapters/xxvi-a-little-remnant.md)
- [Endnotes](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/an_antarctic_mystery_se/chapters/endnotes.md)

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