"Kéraban-Le-Têtu, Volume II" by Jules Verne is an adventure novel published in 1883. When a stubborn Turkish merchant refuses to pay a trivial tax to cross the Bosphorus, he embarks on an absurd seven-hundred-league journey around the Black Sea instead. Racing against a six-week deadline to arrange his nephew's wedding, Kéraban and his reluctant Dutch companions must outwit scheming villains determined to steal the bride's inheritance and derail the marriage. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
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