"Originally published in 1984 by Casterman, France as Transperceneige : L'arpenteur (1999) and as Transperceneige: La traverse (2000)."
"Coursing through an eternal winter, on an icy track wrapped around the frozen planet Earth, there travels a train that never stops. This is Snowpiercer: one thousand and one carriages long. The last bastion of human civilization. Or is it? A second train travels through the snow on the same track, its inhabitants living in constant fear of crashing into Snowpiercer. And from the second train, a small group of scavenging explorers emerges, risking their lives in the deadly cold--" -- p. [4] of cover.
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