The Barsac Mission

The Barsac Mission (French: 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.^[1] An English adaptation by I. O. Evans was published in 1960 in two volumes, Into the Niger Bend and The City in the Sahara.^[2] It includes a hidden city, called in English "Blackland", in the Sahara Desert.

The Barsac Mission

Frontispiece by George Roux from French edition
Author	Jules Verne
Original title	L'Étonnante Aventure de la mission Barsac
Translator	I. O. Evans
Illustrator	George Roux
Language	French
Series	Voyages extraordinaires
Genre	adventure; science fiction
Set in	West Africa
Published	1919 (1919) (posthumously)
Publication place	France
Published in English	1960
Preceded by	The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz
Followed by	Paris in the Twentieth Century

Because of Jules Vernes's interest in Esperanto,^[3][4] the original draft, by himself, called "Voyage d'étude", contained references to the language.^[5] When his son finished the work, he removed those references.