Dr William Butcher

BA Warwick, MA Lancaster, PhD Lond,, Anc El (Etr.) ENS

email: wbutcher at netvigator.com

1A, Kai Ku Shue Ha Village
Luk Keng, NT
Hong Kong
 

Tel: (852) 9488 6470


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Hongkonger Bill Butcher was Founding Director of the Language Centres at the IVE, and is now an independent writer and property restorer. Previously, he worked at Oxford and the ENA (Paris).

His main research area is the nineteenth-century French novelist Jules Verne, on whom he has published a million words and is the specialist most cited online.

Recent books

Le Tour du monde (Gallimard, Oct. 2009)

Salon de 1857 (Acadien, 2008)
Lighthouse at the End of the World (Nebraska UP, 2007)
Jules Verne: The Definitive Biography, with an introduction by Arthur C Clarke (online edition, 2008)
Around the World in Eighty Days (new OUP edition, 2006, printrun 55,000)
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (OUP, 2005)
  

Interviews

Mundo Verne, July-Aug. 2008

France 5, Echappées belles, "Autour du monde", 14 June 2008, "Londres", 46 mins-52 mins

 

Recent articles

Verne en versión original: Las verdaderas aventuras del capitán Hatteras
“Introduction” to Foundling Mick

Verne’s Underground City: The Lost Chapters from Les Indes noires"