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«Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa»
«Aventures de trois Russes et de trois Anglais dans L'Afrique australe»

Three Englishman (Colonel Everest, Sir John Murray and William Emery) and three Russians (Matthew Strux, Nicholas Palander and Michael Zorn) and their guide, a bushman named Mokoum, set out to measure the arc of a meridian in the Kalahari Desert of South Africa. Everything is going well, until war is declared between England & Russia.

Tanzania, 2005, Novels of Jules Verne