The Fur Country Or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude

The Fur Country is an adventure novel by Jules Verne in The Extraordinary Voyages series, first published in 1873. In 1859 Lt. Jasper Hobson and other members of the Hudson's Bay Company travel through the Northwest Territories of Canada to Cape Bathurst on the Arctic Ocean on the mission to create a fort at 70 degrees, north of the Arctic Circle. The area they come to is very rich with wildlife and natural resources.