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Mistress Branican
1891 novel by Jules Verne
Mistress Branican (French: Mistress Branican) is an 1891 adventure novel written by Jules Verne. It is based on Colonel Peter Egerton-Warburton's and Ernest Giles' accounts of their journeys across the deserts of Western Australia, and was also inspired by the search launched by Lady Franklin when her husband Sir John Franklin was reported lost in the Northwest Passage.