| The Fur Country | |
| Title Orig: | Le Pays des fourrures |
| Translator: | N. d’Anvers |
| Author: | Jules Verne |
| Illustrator: | Jules Férat and Alfred Quesnay de Beaurépaire |
| Country: | France |
| Language: | French |
| Series: | The Extraordinary Voyages #10 |
| Genre: | Adventure novel |
| Publisher: | Pierre-Jules Hetzel |
| Release Date: | 1873 |
| English Pub Date: | 1873 |
| Media Type: | Print (Hardback) |
| Preceded By: | The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa |
| Followed By: | Around the World in Eighty Days |
The Fur Country (French: Le Pays des fourrures) or Seventy Degrees North Latitude is an adventure novel by Jules Verne in The Extraordinary Voyages series, first published in 1873. The novel was serialized in Magasin d’Éducation et de Récréation from 20 September 1872 to 15 December 1873. The two-volume first original French edition and the first illustrated large-format edition were published in 1873 by Pierre-Jules Hetzel.[1] The first English translation by N. D’Anvers (pseudonym of Mrs. Arthur (Nancy) Bell) was also published in 1873.[2]
In 1859 Lt. Jasper Hobson and other members of the Hudson's Bay Company travel through the Northwest Territories of Canada to Cape Bathurst on the Arctic Ocean on the mission to create a fort at 70 degrees, north of the Arctic Circle. The area they come to is very rich with wildlife and natural resources. Jasper Hobson and his party establish a fort here. At some point, an earthquake occurs, and from then on, laws of physics seem altered (a total eclipse happens to be only partial; tides are not perceived anymore). They eventually realise that they are on an iceberg separated from the sea ice that is drifting south. Hobson does a daily measurement to know the iceberg's location. The iceberg passes the Bering Strait and the iceberg (which is now much smaller, since the warmer waters have melted some parts) finally reaches a small island. A Danish whaling ship finds them. Every member in Hobson's party is rescued and they all survive.