A Winter amid the Ice and other Thrilling Stories
A collection of Jules Verne adventure stories featuring dangerous journeys, survival challenges, exploration, and scientific or geographic wonder
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A collection of Jules Verne adventure stories featuring dangerous journeys, survival challenges, exploration, and scientific or geographic wonder
The lunar voyage begun in Verne’s earlier novel becomes a more direct exploration of space travel, technical problem-solving and speculative astronomy
Jules Verne sends explorers into the Antarctic in search of answers surrounding a missing expedition, combining polar survival, travel, danger, and mystery
An Antarctic Mystery, Jules Verne's continuation of the world imagined in Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, follows a new expedition into the far south as explorers attempt to uncover what happened after Pym disappeared. The journey begins with mystery rather than certainty
A wager turns global travel into a race against time while the novel builds excitement from transport changes, delays, logistics and cultural encounters
Phileas Fogg makes an absurd wager: he can travel around the world in eighty days. Calm, wealthy, methodical, and almost comically punctual, Fogg leaves London with his new French servant Passepartout and begins a journey in which every delay could cost him the bet
An exploratory journey across Africa framed through invention, geography, uncertainty and the pleasure of navigating a landscape few European readers of the era knew firsthand
Verne mixes geology, underground exploration and scientific curiosity in a classic expedition novel where the unknown is approached through maps, measurements and imagination
Jules Verne’s journey to the center of the Earth begins with a discovery that sounds almost absurd: an old manuscript contains a coded message pointing toward a route beneath the surface of the planet. Professor Otto Lidenbrock becomes obsessed with deciphering it, and soon he, his reluctant
Jules Verne follows authorities pursuing a mysterious inventor who uses an extraordinary all-purpose vehicle to challenge conventional ideas of speed, travel, and power
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea begins with reports of a mysterious sea creature attacking ships, but the supposed monster turns out to be the submarine Nautilus, commanded by the enigmatic Captain Nemo. Professor Aronnax, his servant Conseil, and the harpooner Ned Land become unwilling
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