''The Mighty Orinoco'' (french: Le Superbe Orénoque) is a novel by French writer Jules Verne (1828–1905), first published in

1898 Events January–March * January 1 – New York City annexes land from surrounding counties, creating the City of Greater New York as the world's second largest. The city is geographically divided into five boroughs: Manhattan, B ...

as a part of the

Voyages Extraordinaires The ''Voyages extraordinaires'' (; ) is a Collection (publishing), collection or novel sequence, sequence of novels and short story, short stories by the French writer Jules Verne. Fifty-four of these novels were originally published between 1 ...

. It tells the story of young Jeanne's journey up the

Orinoco River The Orinoco () is one of the longest rivers in South America at . Its drainage basin, sometimes known as the Orinoquia, covers , with 76.3 percent of it in Venezuela and the remainder in Colombia. It is the fourth largest river in the wor ...

Venezuela Venezuela (; ), officially the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela ( es, link=no, República Bolivariana de Venezuela), is a country on the northern coast of South America, consisting of a continental landmass and many islands and islets in th ...

with her protector, Sergeant Martial, in order to find her father, Colonel de Kermor, who disappeared some years before.

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File:'The Mighty Orinoco' by George Roux 39.jpg, An illustration from the novel drawn by George Roux

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