Joyous Miseries of Three Travellers in Scandinavia

Written by Jules Verne and William Butcher

Narrated by Patrick Barker

Joyous Miseries of Three Travellers in Scandinavia


By Jules Verne


Translated with an introduction, notes and


appendices by William Butcher


Read by Patrick Barker


In 1861 a struggling playwright from Nantes travelled to the wildest parts of Norway with two friends. The experience transformed him, opening his eyes to exotic adventures – and to a new mode of writing. The sole surviving chapter of his autobiographical work, completed at about the same time as he met his lifelong publisher and surely his most personal piece, brilliantly recounts his reasons for travelling and his preparations in a henceforth “suffocating” Paris. None of his subsequent masterpieces, but especially Journey to the Centre of the Earth and Captain Hatteras, would have been possible without Verne’s “Joyous Miseries”.


Production copyright 2022 Voices of Today

• Language: English
• Publisher: Voices of Today
• Release date: Mar 7, 2022
• ISBN: 9781953007704

Jules Verne

Jules Verne (1828-1905) used a combination of scientific facts and his imagination to take readers on extraordinary imaginative journeys to fantastic places. In such books as Around the World in Eighty Days, From the Earth to the Moon, and Journey to the Center of the Earth, he predicted many technological advances of the twentieth century, including the invention of the automobile, telephone, and nuclear submarines, as well as atomic power and travel to the moon by rocket.