# Les Indes Noires

By Jules Verne.

"Les Indes Noires" by Jules Verne is a novel published in 1877. When engineer James Starr receives a mysterious summons from former mine foreman Simon Ford, he returns to the supposedly exhausted coal mines of Aberfoyle, Scotland. Together they discover a vast new seam beneath the abandoned pits, establishing an underground city called Coal-City. But inexplicable phenomena threaten the operation, and deep in the tunnels they find Nell, a young girl who has never seen daylight. (Summary by Project Gutenberg, written by machine.)

- Language: French
- Subjects: Coal mines and mining -- Fiction; Scotland -- Fiction; Adventure stories; Civilization, Subterranean -- Fiction; Fantasy fiction, French; Imaginary places

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