Jules Verne

A literary anthology explores the natural wonders of the frozen landscapes of the Arctic in a compilation of first-person narratives, cultural histories, science and nature writing, and fiction.

Jasper Hobson was sure the trading post he and his Hudson's Bay company expedition had built overlooking the Arctic Ocean was set on solid ground. On his maps it was shown as Cape Bathurst, but in fact it was a huge ice shelf, covered with earth and vegetation, and attached to the mainland by a narrow isthmus. In the dead of winter a volcanic eruption broke it loose and the spring thaw found the whole expedition--fourteen men, six women, and a baby--adrift on an ice island. If they drifted too far north they would become locked in the permanent icefield; westward, the current might carry through the Bering Strait and into the Pacific Ocean, where warm waters would soon melt their island from under them.

Ou le monde savant et le monde ignorant sont aussi embarrasses l'un ou l'autre. « Pan !... Pan !... » Les deux coups de pistolet partirent presque en meme temps. Une vache, qui paissait a cinquante pas de la, recut une des balles dans l'echine. Elle n'etait pour rien dans l'affaire, cependant. Ni l'un ni l'autre des deux adversaires n'avait ete touche. Quels etaient ces deux gentlemen? On ne sait, et, cependant, c'eut ete la, sans doute, l'occasion de faire parvenir leurs noms a la posterite. Tout ce qu'on peut dire, c'est que le plus age etait Anglais, le plus jeune Americain. Quant a indiquer en quel endroit l'inoffensif ruminant venait de paitre sa derniere touffe d'herbe, rien de plus facile. C'etait sur la rive droite du Niagara, non loin de ce pont suspendu qui reunit la rive americaine a la rive canadienne, trois milles au-dessous des chutes. L'Anglais s'avanca alors vers l'Americain : « Je n en soutiens pas moins que c'etait le Rule Britannia! dit-il.

Adaptación del clásico de Julio Verne.

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, expressed by another character in the novel, that it was not so.

An adaptation of the nineteenth-century science fiction tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and the undersea world, which anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century.

A wager by the eccentric and mysterious Englishman Phileas Fogg that he can circle the globe in just eighty days initiates this marvelous travelogue and exciting suspense story.

The Child of the Cavern follows engineer James Starr as he receives a letter from an old friend and co-worker, Simon Ford, requesting that he revisit a depleted coal mine in Scotland that he used to manage. Upon arriving, Starr finds the entire Ford family living in the mine, and Ford explains that a new coal vein has been located. Soon after Starr’s return, however, strange events start to occur, which seem to be supernatural. After a startling discovery, the characters continue to investigate these occurrences over the course of several years.

An eccentric engineer calling himself Robur the Conqueror kidnaps three of his critics and embarks on a trip around the world in a flying machine he invented.

Deux Américains et un Français ont décidé d'atteindre la Lune en s'enfermant dans un obus lancé par un gigantesque canon.