The Sea Serpent

The Sea Serpent: The Yarns of Jean Marie Cabidoulin (French: Les Histoires de Jean-Marie Cabidoulin, lit. The Stories of Jean-Marie Cabidoulin) is an adventure novel by French author Jules Verne first published in 1901. The story centers on a French whaling ship, the St. Enoch, which sets out from Le Havre on a voyage to kill whales for their meat and oil. The ship's cooper is the eponymous Cabidoulin, a firm believer in the existence of a giant serpent with a habit of dragging vessels to their doom.

The Sea Serpent

Title page of 1st illustrated French edition
Author	Jules Verne
Original title	Les Histoires de Jean-Marie Cabidoulin
Translator	I. O. Evans
Illustrator	Georges Roux
Language	French
Series	The Extraordinary Voyages No. 49
Genre	Adventure novel
Publisher	Pierre-Jules Hetzel
Publication date	1901
Publication place	France
Published in English	1967
Media type	Print (hardback)
Preceded by	The Village in the Treetops
Followed by	The Kip Brothers

Publication history

• 1967, UK, London, Arco, 191 pp., 60 illus., First English translation^[1]