The Mighty Orinoco

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The Mighty Orinoco
Cover of the first illustrated edition.
Author	Jules Verne
Original title	Le Superbe Orénoque
Illustrator	George Roux
Country	France
Language	French
Series	Voyages Extraordinaires #45
Genre(s)	Adventure novel
Publisher	Pierre-Jules Hetzel
Publication date	1898
Media type	Print

The Mighty Orinoco (French: Le Superbe Orénoque) is a novel by French writer Jules Verne (1828–1905), first published in 1898 as a part of the Voyages Extraordinaires. It tells the story of young Jean's journey up the Orinoco River in Venezuela with his protector, Sergeant Martial, in order to find Colonel de Kermor, who disappeared some years before.

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Voyages Extraordinaires by Jules Verne

Five Weeks in a Balloon · The Adventures of Captain Hatteras · Journey to the Center of the Earth · From the Earth to the Moon · In Search of the Castaways · Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea · Around the Moon · A Floating City · The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa · The Fur Country · Around the World in Eighty Days · The Mysterious Island · The Survivors of the Chancellor · Michael Strogoff · Off on a Comet · The Child of the Cavern · Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen · The Begum's Fortune · Tribulations of a Chinaman in China · The Steam House · Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon · Godfrey Morgan · The Green Ray · Kéraban the Inflexible · The Vanished Diamond · The Archipelago on Fire · Mathias Sandorf · The Lottery Ticket · Robur the Conqueror · North Against South · The Flight to France · Two Years' Vacation · Family Without a Name · The Purchase of the North Pole · César Cascabel · Mistress Branican · Carpathian Castle · Claudius Bombarnac · Foundling Mick · Captain Antifer · Propeller Island · Facing the Flag · Clovis Dardentor · An Antarctic Mystery · The Mighty Orinoco · The Will of an Eccentric · The Castaways of the Flag · The Village in the Treetops · The Sea Serpent · The Kip Brothers · Traveling Scholarships · A Drama in Livonia · Master of the World · Invasion of the Sea