Jules Verne
en l'année 1872, la maison portant le numéro 7 de Saville-Row, Burlington Gardens, -maison dans laquelle Shéridan mourut en 1814, -était habitée par Phileas Fogg, esq., l'un des membres les plus singuliers et les plus remarqués du reform-club de Londres, bien qu'il semblât prendre à tâche de ne rien faire qui pût attirer l'attention.
What would it be like to explore a largely unknown swath of the world—from the air? That's exactly what the intrepid explorers in Jules Verne's Five Weeks in a Balloon set out to do in this novel, an early entrant in the literature describing European exploration of Africa. Like many of Verne's novels, this tale is so richly detailed and historically accurate that you'll feel like you've actually come along for the ride.
Fans of classic adventure fiction will delight in Jules Verne's An Antarctic Mystery. The novel follows the journey of fictional explorer Pym, who also appeared in Edgar Allen Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, through the eyes of an American explorer who is surveying the Kerguelen Islands.
A Journey to the Center of the Earth, also translated as A Journey to the Interior of the Earth, follows a man, his nephew and their guide down an Icelandic volcano into the center of the earth. There they encounter an ancient landscape filled with prehistoric animals and natural dangers. There is some discussion as to whether Verne really believed that such things might be found in the center, or whether he shared the alternate view,
...Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea is a classic adventure story by the author known as the "Father of Science Fiction. " Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant Conseil and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land set out on a hazardous voyage to rid the seas of the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. Discovering that the monster is in fact the giant submarine "Nautilus, " they are soon captured by its mysterious commander, Captain
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