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This Excellent Collection brings together Jules Verne's longer, major books and a fine selection of shorter pieces and Science-Fiction Books. These Books created and collected in Jules Verne's Most important Works illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of the XX century - a man who elevated political writing to an art. Jules Verne (1828Ŕ1905) was a French writer. He was one of the first authors to write science fiction. Some of his books include Journey To The Centre Of The Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).Jules Verne has earned a place in the history of literature as one of the most important writers of adventure novels of recent history. But his novels contain more than just entertainment. Their pages contain hidden scientific data, descriptions of inventions and, above all, a love of technological innovations and the progress of humanity. From his perspective as a nineteenth-century man, Verne shocked the world will tales of gadgets and vehicles that, years later, would eventually take shape outside fiction, just as Isaac Asimov did years later. His influence has been such that it has come to serve as an inspiration to an entire cultural and aesthetic movement.This Collection included:1. Five Weeks in a Balloon2. The Adventures of Captain Hatteras3. A Journey into the Center of the Earth4. From the Earth to the Moon5. Around the Moon6. In Search of the Castaways7. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea8. A Floating City9. The Fur Country10. Around the World in Eighty Days11. The Mysterious Island12. The Survivors of the Chancellor13. Michael Strogoff, or the Courier of the Czar14. Off on a Comet15. The Underground City, or the Child of the Cavern16. Dick Sand, a Captain at Fifteen17. The Begum's Millions18. Tribulations of a Chinaman in China19. The Steam House20. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon21. Godfrey Morgan22. The Green Ray23. Kéraban the Inflexible24. The Vanished Diamond25. The Archipelago on Fire26. Mathias Sandorf27. The Lottery Ticket28. Robur the Conqueror29. Texar's Revenge, or, North Against South30. The Flight to France31. Two Years' Vacation32. Family Without a Name33. The Purchase of the North Pole, or Topsy-Turvy34. César Cascabel35. Mistress Branican36. Carpathian Castle37. Claudius Bombarnac38. Foundling Mick39. Captain Antifer40. Propeller Island41. Facing the Flag42. Clovis Dardentor43. An Antarctic Mystery44. The Will of an Eccentric45. Master of the World
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Table of Contents
About the Book & Author
EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGES SERIES
1. Five Weeks in a Balloon
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
2. The Adventures of Captain Hatteras
Part 1 - The English at the North pole
Chapter 1 - The forward
Chapter 2 - An Unexpected Letter
Chapter 3 - Dr. Clawbonny
Chapter 4 - The Dog-Captain
Chapter 5 - At Sea
Chapter 6 - The Great Polar Current
Chapter 7 - The Entrance of Davis Strait
Chapter 8 - The Talk of the Crew
Chapter 9 - Another Letter
Chapter 10 - Dangerous Sailing
Chapter 11 - The Devil's Thumb
Chapter 12 - Captain Hatteras
Chapter 13 - The Captain's Plans
Chapter 14 - The Expeditions in Search of Franklin
Chapter 15 - The Forward Driven Southward
Chapter 16 - The Magnetic Pole
On the Quarter-Deck
Chapter 17 - The Fate of Sir John Franklin
Chapter 18 - The Way Northward
Chapter 19 - A Whale in Sight
Chapter 20 - Beechey Island
Chapter 21 - The Death of Bellot
Chapter 22 - The First Signs of Mutiny
Chapter 23 - Attacked By the Ice
Chapter 24 - Preparations for Wintering
Chapter 25 - One of James Ross's Foxes
Chapter 26 - The Last Piece of Coal
Chapter 27 - The Great Cold at Christmas
Chapter 28 - Preparations for Departure
Chapter 29 - Across the Ice-Fields
Chapter 30 - The Cairn
Chapter 31 - The Death of Simpson
Chapter 32 - The Return to the Forward
Part 2 - The Desert of Ice
Chapter 1 - The Doctor's Inventory
Chapter 2 - Altamont's First Words
Chapter 3 - Seventeen Days of Land Journey
Chapter 4 - The Last Charge of Powder
Chapter 5 - The Seal and the Bear
Chapter 6 - The Porpoise
Chapter 7 - A Discussion About Charts
Chapter 8 - Excursion to the North of Victoria Bay
Chapter 9 - Cold and Heat
Chapter 10 - The Pleasures of Winter-Quarters
Chapter 11 - Disquieting Traces
Chapter 12 - The Ice Prison
Chapter 13 - The Mine
Chapter 14 - The Polar Spring
Chapter 15 - The Northwest Passage
Chapter 16 - Northern Arcadia
Chapter 17 - Altamont's Revenge
Chapter 18 - The Last Preparations
Chapter 19 - The Journey Northward
Chapter 20 - Footprints on the Snow
Chapter 21 - The Open Sea
Chapter 22 - The Approach to the Pole
Chapter 23 - The English Flag
Chapter 24 - Polar Cosmography
Chapter 25 - Mount Hatteras
Chapter 26 - Return to the South
Chapter 27 - Conclusion
3. A Journey Into the Center of the Earth
Chapter 1 - The Professor and His Family
Chapter 2 - A Mystery to Be Solved at Any Price
Chapter 3 - The Runic Writing Exercises the Professor
Chapter 4 - The Enemy to Be Starved Into Submission
Chapter 5 - Famine, Then Victory, Followed By Dismay
Chapter 6 - Exciting Discussions About an Unparalleled Enterprise
Chapter 7 - A Woman's Courage
Chapter 8 - Serious Preparations for Vertical Descent
Chapter 9 - Iceland! But What Next?
Chapter 10 - Interesting Conversations With Icelandic Savants
Chapter 11 - A Guide Found to the Centre of the Earth
Chapter 12 - A Barren Land
Chapter 13 - Hospitality Under the Arctic Circle
Chapter 14 - But Arctics Can Be Inhospitable, Too
Chapter 15 - Snæfell at Last
Chapter 16 - Boldly Down the Crater
Chapter 17 - Vertical Descent
Chapter 18 - The Wonders of Terrestrial Depths
Chapter 19 - Geological Studies in Situ
Chapter 20 - The First Signs of Distress
Chapter 21 - Compassion Fuses the Professor's Heart
Chapter 22 - Total Failure of Water
Chapter 23 - Water Discovered
Chapter 24 - Well Said, Old Mole! Canst Thou Work I' the Ground So Fast?
Chapter 25 - De Profundis
Chapter 26 - The Worst Peril of All
Chapter 27 - Lost in the Bowels of the Earth
Chapter 28 - The Rescue in the Whispering Gallery
Chapter 29 - Thalatta! Thalatta!
Chapter 30 - A New Mare Internum
Chapter 31 - Preparations for a Voyage of Discovery
Chapter 32 - Wonders of the Deep
Chapter 33 - A Battle of Monsters
Chapter 34 - The Great Geyser
Chapter 35 - An Electric Storm
Chapter 36 - Calm Philosophic Discussions
Chapter 37 - The Liedenbrock Museum of Geology
Chapter 38 - The Professor in His Chair Again
Chapter 39 - Forest Scenery Illuminated By Eletricity
Chapter 40 - Preparations for Blasting a Passage to the Centre of the Earth
Chapter 41 - The Great Explosion and the Rush Down Below
Chapter 42 - Headlong Speed Upward Through the Horrors of Darkness
Chapter 43 - Shot Out of a Volcano at Last!
Chapter 44 - Sunny Lands in the Blue Mediterranean
Chapter 45 - All's Well That Ends Well
4. From the Earth to the Moon
Chapter 1 - The Gun Club
Chapter 2 - President Barbicane's Communication
Chapter 3 - Effect of the President's Communication
Chapter 4 - Reply from the Observatory of Cambridge
Chapter 5 - The Romance of the Moon
Chapter 6 - The Permissive Limits of Ignorance and Belief in the United States
Chapter 7 - The Hymn of the Cannon-Ball
Chapter 8 - History of the Cannon
Chapter 9 - The Question of Powders
Chapter 10 - One Enemy vs Twenty-Five Millions of Friends
Chapter 11 - Florida and Texas
Chapter 12 - Urbi et Orbi
Chapter 13 - Stones Hill
Chapter 14 - Pickaxe and Trowel
Chapter 15 - The Fete of the Casting
Chapter 16 - The Columbiad
Chapter 17 - A Telegraphic Dispatch
Chapter 18 - The Passenger of the Atlanta
Chapter 19 - A Monster Meeting
Chapter 20 - Attack and Riposte
Chapter 21 - How a Frenchman Manages an Affair
Chapter 22 - The New Citizen of the United States
Chapter 23 - The Projectile-Vehicle
Chapter 24 - The Telescope of the Rocky Mountains
Chapter 25 - Final Details
Chapter 26 - Fire!
Chapter 27 - Foul Weather
Chapter 28 - A New Star
5. Around the Moon
Preliminary Chapter
Chapter 1 - From 10 p.m. to 10 46' 40''
Chapter 2 - The First Half Hour
Chapter 3 - They Make Themselves at Home and Feel Quite Comfortable
Chapter 4 - For the Cornell Girls
Chapter 5 - The Colds of Space
Chapter 6 - Instructive Conversation
Chapter 7 - A High Old Time
Chapter 8 - The Neutral Point
Chapter 9 - A Little off the Track
Chapter 10 - The Observers of the Moon
Chapter 11 - Fact and Fancy
Chapter 12 - A Bird's Eye View of the Lunar Mountains
Chapter 13 - Lunar Landscapes
Chapter 14 - A Night of Fifteen Days
Chapter 15 - Glimpses at the Invisible
Chapter 16 - The Southern Hemisphere
Chapter 17 - Tycho
Chapter 18 - Puzzling Questions
Chapter 19 - In Every Fight, the Impossible Wins
Chapter 20 - Off the Pacific Coast
Chapter 21 - News for Marston!
Chapter 22 - On the Wings of the Wind
Chapter 23 - The Club Men Go a Fishing
Chapter 24 - Farewell to the Baltimore Gun Club
6. In search of the castaways
Chapter 1 - The Shark
Chapter 2 - The Three Documents
Chapter 3 - The Captain's Children
Chapter 4 - Lady Glenarvan's Proposal
Chapter 5 - The Departure of the Duncan
Chapter 6 - An Unexpected Passenger
Chapter 7 - Jacques Paganel is Undeceived
Chapter 8 - The Geographer's Resolution
Chapter 9 - Through the Strait of Magellan
Chapter 10 - The Course Decided
Chapter 11 - Traveling in Chili
Chapter 12 - Eleven Thousand Feet Aloft
Chapter 13 - A Sudden Descent
Chapter 14 - Providentially Rescued
Chapter 15 - Thalcave
Chapter 16 - News of the Lost Captain
Chapter 17 - A Serious Necessity
Chapter 18 - In Search of Water
Chapter 19 - The Red Wolves
Chapter 20 - Strange Signs
Chapter 21 - A False Trail
Chapter 22 - The Flood
Chapter 23 - A Singular Abode
Chapter 24 - Paganel's Disclosure
Chapter 25 - Between Fire and Water
Chapter 26 - The Return on Board
Chapter 27 - A New Destination
Chapter 28 - Tristan d'Acunha and the Isle of Amsterdam
Chapter 29 - The Storm on the Indian Ocean
Chapter 30 - A Hospitable Colonist
Chapter 31 - The Quartermaster of the Britannia
Chapter 32 - Preparations for the Journey
Chapter 33 - An Accident
Chapter 34 - Australian Explorers
Chapter 35 - Crime or Calamity?
Chapter 36 - Fresh Faces
Chapter 37 - A Warning
Chapter 38 - Wealth in the Wilderness
Chapter 39 - Suspicious Occurrences
Chapter 40 - A Startling Discovery
Chapter 41 - The Plot Unveiled
Chapter 42 - Four Days of Anguish
Chapter 43 - Helpless and Hopeless
Chapter 44 - A Rough Captain
Chapter 45 - The Wreck of the Macquarie
Chapter 46 - Vain Efforts
Chapter 47 - A Dreaded Country
Chapter 48 - Introduction to the Cannibals
Chapter 49 - A momentous Interview
Chapter 50 - The Chief's Funeral
Chapter 51 - Strangely Liberated
Chapter 52 - The Sacred Mountain
Chapter 53 - A Bold Stratagem
Chapter 54 - From Peril to Safety
Chapter 55 - Why the Duncan Went to New Zealand
Chapter 56 - Ayrton's Obstinacy
Chapter 57 - A Discouraging Confession
Chapter 58 - A Cry in the Night
Chapter 59 - Captain Grant's Story
Chapter 60 - Paganel's Last Entanglement
7. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
Part 1
Chapter 1 - A runaway reef
Chapter 2 - The Pros and Cons
Chapter 3 - As Master Wishes
Chapter 4 - Ned Land
Chapter 5 - At Random!
Chapter 6 - At Full Steam
Chapter 7 - A Whale of Unknown Species
Chapter 8 - "Mobilis in Mobili"
Chapter 9 - The Tantrums of Ned Land
Chapter 10 - The Man of the Waters
Chapter 11 - The Nautilus
Chapter 12 - Everything Through electricity
Chapter 13 - Some Figures
Chapter 14 - The Black Current
Chapter 15 - An Invitation in Writing
Chapter 16 - Strolling the Plains
Chapter 17 - An Underwater Forest
Chapter 18 - Four Thousand Leagues Under the Pacific
Chapter 19 - Vanikoro
Chapter 20 - The Torres Strait
Chapter 21 - Some Days Ashore
Chapter 22 - The Lightning Bolts of Captain Nemo
Chapter 23 - "Aegri Somnia"
Chapter 24 - The Coral Realm
Part 2
Chapter 1 - The Indian Ocean
Chapter 2 - A New Proposition from Captain Nemo
Chapter 3 - A Pearl Worth Ten Million
Chapter 4 - The Red Sea
Chapter 5 - Arabian Tunnel
Chapter 6 - The Greek Islands
Chapter 7 - The Mediterranean in Forty-Eight Hours
Chapter 8 - The Bay of Vigo
Chapter 9 - A Lost Continent
Chapter 10 - The Underwater Coalfields
Chapter 11 - The Sargasso Sea
Chapter 12 - Sperm Whales and Baleen Whales
Chapter 13 - The Ice Bank
Chapter 14 - The South Pole
Chapter 15 - Accident or Incident?
Chapter 16 - Shortage of Air
Chapter 17 - From Cape Horn to the Amazon
Chapter 18 - The Devilfish
Chapter 19 - The Gulf Stream
Chapter 20 - In Latitude 47° 24' and Longitude 17° 28'
Chapter 21 - A Mass Execution
Chapter 22 - The Last Words of Captain Nemo
Chapter 23 - The Conclusion
8. A Floating City
Chapter 1. On the Banks of the Orange River
Chapter 2. Official Presentations
Chapter 3. The Land Journey
Chapter 4. A Few Words about the Mètre
Chapter 5. A Hottentot Village
Chapter 6. Better Acquaintance
Chapter 7. The Base of the Triangle
Chapter 8. The Twenty-Fourth Meridian
Chapter 9. The Kraal
Chapter 10. The Rapid
Chapter 11. A Missing Companion
Chapter 12. A Station to Sir John's Liking
Chapter 13. Pacification By Fire
Chapter 14. A Declaration of War
Chapter 15. A Geometric Progression
Chapter 16. Danger In Disguise
Chapter 17. An Unexpected Blight
Chapter 18. The Desert
Chapter 19. Science Undaunted
Chapter 20. Standing A Siege
Chapter 21. Suspense
Chapter 22. Hide and Seek
Chapter 23. Homeward Bound
9. The Fur Country
Part 1
Chapter 1 - A Soirée at Fort Reliance
Chapter 2 - The Hudson's Bay Fur Company
Chapter 3 - A Savant Thawed
Chapter 4 - A Factory
Chapter 5 - From Fort Reliance to Fort Enterprise
Chapter 6 - A Wapiti Duel
Chapter 7 - The Arctic Circle
Chapter 8 - The Great Bear Lake
Chapter 9 - A Storm on the Lake
Chapter 10 - A Retrospect
Chapter 11 - Along the Coast
Chapter 12 - The Midnight Sun
Chapter 13 - Fort Hope
Chapter 14 - Some Excursions
Chapter 15 - Fifteen Miles from Cape Bathurst
Chapter 16 - Two Shots
Chapter 17 - The Approach of Winter
Chapter 18 - The Polar Night
Chapter 19 - A Neighbourly Visit
Chapter 20 - Mercury Freezes
Chapter 21 - The Large Polar Bears
Chapter 22 - Five Months More
Chapter 23 - The Eclipse of the 18th June 1860
Part 2
Chapter 1 - A Floating Fort
Chapter 2 - Where Are We?
Chapter 3 - A Tour of the Island
Chapter 4 - A Night Encampment
Chapter 5 - From July 25th to August 20th
Chapter 6 - Ten Days of Tempest
Chapter 7 - A Fire and a Cry
Chapter 8 - Mrs Paulina Barnett's Excursion
Chapter 9 - Kalumah's Adventures
Chapter 10 - The Kamtchatka Current
Chapter 11 - A Communication from Lieutenant Hobson
Chapter 12 - A Chance to Be Tried
Chapter 13 - Across the Ice-Field
Chapter 14 - The Winter Months
Chapter 15 - A Last Exploring Expedition
Chapter 16 - The Break-Up of the Ice
Chapter 17 - The Avalanche
Chapter 18 - All at Work
Chapter 19 - Behring Sea
Chapter 20 - In the Offing
Chapter 21 - The Island Becomes an Isle
Chapter 22 - The Four Following Days
Chapter 23 - On a Piece of Ice
Chapter 24 - Conclusion
10. Around the World in Eighty Days
Chapter 1 - In which Phileas Fogg and Passepartout accept each other, the one as master, the other as man
Chapter 2 - In which Passepartout is convinced that he has at last found his ideal
Chapter 3 - In which a conversation takes place which seems likely to cost Phileas Fogg dear
Chapter 4 - In which Phileas Fogg astounds Passepartout, his servant
Chapter 5 - In which a new species of funds, unknown to the moneyed men, appears on change
Chapter 6 - In which Fix, the detective, betrays a very natural impatience
Chapter 7 - Which once more demonstrates the uselessness of passports as aids to detectives
Chapter 8 - In which Passepartout talks rather more, perhaps, than is prudent
Chapter 9 - In which the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean prove propitious to the designs of Phileas Fogg
Chapter 10 - In which Passepartout is only too glad to get off with the loss of his shoes
Chapter 11 - In which Phileas Fogg secures a curious means of conveyance at a fabulous price
Chapter 12 - In which Phileas Fogg and his companions venture across the Indian forests, and what ensued
Chapter 13 - In which Passepartout receives a new proof that fortune favors the brave
Chapter 14 - In which Phileas Fogg descends the whole length of the beautiful Valley of the Ganges without ever thinking of seeing it
Chapter 15 - In which the bag of banknotes disgorges some thousands of pounds more
Chapter 16 - In which Fix does not seem to understand in the least what is said to him
Chapter 17 - Showing what happened on the voyage from Singapore to Hong Kong
Chapter 18 - In which Phileas Fogg, Passepartout, and Fix go each about his business
Chapter 19 - In which Passepartout takes a too great interest in his master, and what comes of it
Chapter 20 - In which Fix comes face to face with Phileas Fogg
Chapter 21 - In which the master of the "Tankadere" runs great risk of losing a reward of two hundred pounds
Chapter 22 - In which Passepartout finds out that, even at the antipodes, it is convenient to have some money in one's pocket
Chapter 23 - In which Passepartout's nose becomes outrageously long
Chapter 24 - During which Mr. Fogg and Party cross the Pacific Ocean
Chapter 25 - In which a slight glimpse is had of San Francisco
Chapter 26 - In which Phileas Fogg and Party travel by the Pacific railroad
Chapter 27 - In which Passepartout undergoes, at a speed of twenty miles an hour, a course of Mormon history
Chapter 28 - In which Passepartout does not succeed in making anybody listen to reason
Chapter 29 - In which certain incidents are narrated which are only to be met with on American railroads
Chapter 30 - In which Phileas Fogg simply does his duty
Chapter 31 - In which Fix, the detective, considerably furthers the interests of Phileas Fogg
Chapter 32 - In which Phileas Fogg engages in a direct struggle with bad fortune
Chapter 33 - In which Phileas Fogg shows himself equal to the occasion
Chapter 34 - In which Phileas Fogg at last reaches London
Chapter 35 - In which Phileas Fogg does not have to repeat his orders to Passepartout twice
Chapter 36 - In which Phileas Fogg's name is once more at a premium on change
Chapter 37 - In which it is shown that Phileas Fogg gained nothing by his tour around the world, unless it were happiness
11. The Mysterious Island
Part 1 - Dropped from the Clouds
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Part 2 - Abandoned
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Part 3 - The Secret of the Island
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
12. The Survivors of the Chancellor
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
Chapter 33
Chapter 34
Chapter 35
Chapter 36
Chapter 37
Chapter 38
Chapter 39
Chapter 40
Chapter 41
Chapter 42
Chapter 43
Chapter 44
Chapter 45
Chapter 46
Chapter 47
Chapter 48
Chapter 49
Chapter 50
Chapter 51
Chapter 52
Chapter 53
Chapter 54
Chapter 55
Chapter 56
Chapter 57
13. Michael Strogoff
Or the Courier of the Czar
Part 1
Part 2
14. Off on a Comet
Part 1
Part 2
15. The Underground City, or the Child of the Cavern
Chapter 1 - Contradictory letters
Chapter 2 - On the road
Chapter 3 - The dochart pit
Chapter 4 - The Ford family
Chapter 5 - Some strange phenomena
Chapter 6 - Simon Ford’s experiment
Chapter 7 - New Aberfoyle
Chapter 8 - Exploring
Chapter 9 - The fire-maidens
Chapter 10 - Coal town
Chapter 11 - Hanging by a thread
Chapter 12 - Nell adopted
Chapter 13 - On the revolving ladder
Chapter 14 - A sunrise
Chapter 15 - Loch Lomond and Loch Katrine
Chapter 16 - A final threat
Chapter 17 - The “Monk”
Chapter 18 - Nell’s wedding
Chapter 19 - The legend of Old Silfax
16. Dick Sand, a Captain at Fifteen
Part 1
Part 2
17. The Begum's Millions
Chapter 1 - Enter Mr. Sharp
Chapter 2 - A pair of chums
Chapter 3 - Effect of an item of news
Chapter 4 - Two claimants
Chapter 5 - Steeltown
Chapter 6 - The Albrecht pit
Chapter 7 - The central block
Chapter 8 - The dragon's den
Chapter 9 - P.P.C.
Chapter 10 - An article from “Unsere Centurie,” a German review
Chapter 11 - At dinner with Dr. Sarrasin
Chapter 12 - The council
Chapter 13 - News for the Professor
Chapter 14 - Clearing for action
Chapter 15 - The Exchange of San Francisco
Chapter 16 - A brace of Frenchmen capture a town
Chapter 17 - Parley before the citadel
Chapter 18 - The kernel of the nut
Chapter 19 - A family affair
Chapter 20 - Conclusion
18. Tribulations of a Chinaman in China
Chapter 1 - In which the peculiarities and nationality of the personages are gradually revealed
Chapter 2 - In which kin-fo and the philosopher are more fully described
Chapter 3 - In which the reader, without fatigue, can glance over the city of Shang-Hai
Chapter 4 - In which Kin-Fo receives an important letter, which is eight days behind time
Chapter 5 - In which Le-Ou receives a letter which she would rather not have received
Chapter 6 - Which will, perhaps, make the reader desire to visit the offices of the “Centenary”
Chapter 7 - Which would be very sad if it did not treat of ways and customs peculiar to the celestial empire
Chapter 8 - In which Kin-Fo makes a serious proposition to Wang, which the latter no less seriously accepts
Chapter 9 - The conclusion of which, however singular it may be, perhaps will not surprise the reader
Chapter 10 - In which Craig and Fry are officially presented to the new patron of the Centenary
Chapter 11 - In which Kin-Fo becomes the most celebrated man in the central empire
Chapter 12 - In which Kin-Fo, his two acolytes, and his valet start on an adventure
Chapter 13 - In which is heard the celebrated lament called “the five periods in the life of a centenarian”
Chapter 14 - In which the visitor, without fatigue, can travel through four cities by visiting only one
Chapter 15 - Which certainly contains a surprise for Kin-Fo, and perhaps for the reader
Chapter 16 - In which Kin-Fo, who is still a bachelor, begins to travel again in earnest
Chapter 17 - In which Kin-Fo’s market value is once more uncertain
Chapter 18 - In which Craig and Fry, urged by curiosity, visit the hold of the “Sam-Yep”
Chapter 19 - Which does not finish well, either for Capt. Yin, the commander of the “Sam-Yep,” or for her crew
Chapter 20 - In which it will be seen to what dangers men are exposed who use Capt. Boyton’s nautical apparatus
Chapter 21 - In which Craig and Fry see the Moon rise with extreme satisfaction
Chapter 22 - Which the reader might have written himself, it ends in so surprising a way
19. The Steam House
Book One - The Demon of Cawnpore
Book Two - Tigers and Traitors
20. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
Part 1 - The Giant Raft
Part 2 - The Cryptogram
21. Godfrey Morgan
Chapter 1 - In which the reader has the opportunity of buying an island in the Pacific ocean
Chapter 2 - How William W. Kolderup, of San Francisco, was at Loggerheads with J. R. Taskinar, of Stockton
Chapter 3 - The conversation of Phina Hollaney and Godfrey Morgan, with a piano accompaniment
Chapter 4 - In which T. Artelett, otherwise Tartlet, is duly introduced to the reader
Chapter 5 - In which they prepare to go, and at the end of which they go for good
Chapter 6 - In which the reader makes the acquaintance of a new personage
Chapter 7 - In which it will be seen that William W. Kolderup was probably right in insuring his ship
Chapter 8 - Which leads Godfrey to bitter reflections on the mania for travelling
Chapter 9 - In which it is shown that Crusoes do not have everything as they wish
Chapter 10 - In which Godfrey does what any other shipwrecked man would have done under the circumstances
Chapter 11 - In which the question of lodging is solved as well as it could be
Chapter 12 - Which ends with a thunder-bolt
Chapter 13 - In which Godfrey again sees a slight smoke over another part of the island
Chapter 14 - Wherein Godfrey finds some wreckage, to which he and his companion give a hearty welcome
Chapter 15 - In which there happens what happens at least once in the life of every Crusoe, real or imaginary
Chapter 16 - In which something happens which cannot fail to surprise the reader
Chapter 17 - In which Professor Tartlet's gun really does marvels
Chapter 18 - Which treats of the moral and physical education of a simple native of the Pacific
Chapter 19 - In which the situation already gravely compromised becomes more and more complicated
Chapter 20 - In which Tartlet reiterates in every key that he would rather be off
Chapter 21 - Which ends with quite a surprising reflection by the negro Carefinotu
Chapter 22 - Which concludes by explaining what up to now had appeared inexplicable
22. The Green Ray
Chapter 1 - The brothers Sam and Sib
Chapter 2 - Helena Campbell
Chapter 3 - The article in the “Morning Post”
Chapter 4 - Down the Clyde
Chapter 5 - Change of steamers
Chapter 6 - The gulf of Coryvrechan
Chapter 7 - Aristobulus Ursiclos
Chapter 8 - A cloud on the horizon
Chapter 9 - Dame Bess’s talk
Chapter 10 - A croquet party
Chapter 11 - Oliver Sinclair
Chapter 12 - New plans
Chapter 13 - The glories of the sea
Chapter 14 - Life at Iona
Chapter 15 - The ruins of Iona
Chapter 16 - Two gun-shots
Chapter 17 - On board the “Clorinda”
Chapter 18 - Staffa
Chapter 19 - Fingal's cave
Chapter 20 - For Helena's sake
Chapter 21 - A tempest in a cavern
Chapter 22 - The green ray
Chapter 23 - Conclusion
23. Kéraban the Inflexible
Part 1
Part 2
24. The Vanished Diamond
Chapter 1 - One for the Frenchman
Chapter 2 - To the diamond fields
Chapter 3 - A little science
Chapter 4 - Vandergaart Kopje
Chapter 5 - The diggers at work
Chapter 6 - In camp
Chapter 7 - The landslip
Chapter 8 - The great experiment
Chapter 9 - A surprise
Chapter 10 - John Watkins thinks matters over
Chapter 11 - The star disappears
Chapter 12 - Making ready
Chapter 13 - Across the Transvaal
Chapter 14 - The North of the Limpopo
Chapter 15 - A plot
Chapter 16 - Treason
Chapter 17 - An African steeplechase
Chapter 18 - The talking ostrich
Chapter 19 - The wonderful Grotto
Chapter 20 - The return
Chapter 21 - Venetian justice
Chapter 22 - A mine of a new sort
Chapter 23 - The hour of triumph
Chapter 24 - The fate of the star
25. The Archipelago on Fire
Chapter 1 - A ship in the offing
Chapter 2 - Face to face
Chapter 3 - Greeks against Turks
Chapter 4 - A house of sorrow
Chapter 5 - The coast of Messenia
Chapter 6 - Down with the pirates of the archipelago!
Chapter 7 - The unexpected
Chapter 8 - Twenty millions at stake
Chapter 9 - The archipelago in flames
Chapter 10 - The campaign in the archipelago
Chapter 11 - Unanswered signals
Chapter 12 - An auction at Scarpanto
Chapter 13 - On board the "Syphanta"
Chapter 14 - Sacratif
Chapter 15 - Conclusion
26. Mathias Sandorf
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Part 1
Part 2
Part 3
Part 4
Part 5
27. The Lottery Ticket
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
28. Robur the Conqueror
Chapter 1 - Mysterious sounds
Chapter 2 - Agreement impossible
Chapter 3 - A visitor is announced
Chapter 4 - In which a new character appears
Chapter 5 - Another disappearance
Chapter 6 - The President and secretary suspend hostilities
Chapter 7 - On board the albatross
Chapter 8 - The balloonists refuse to be convinced
Chapter 9 - Across the prairie
Chapter 10 - Westward—but Whither?
Chapter 11 - The wide Pacific
Chapter 12 - Through the Himalayas
Chapter 13 - Over the Caspian
Chapter 14 - The aeronef at full speed
Chapter 15 - A Skirmish in Dahomey
Chapter 16 - Over the Atlantic
Chapter 17 - The shipwrecked crew
Chapter 18 - Over the volcano
Chapter 19 - Anchored at last
Chapter 20 - The wreck of the albatross
Chapter 21 - The institute again
Chapter 22 - The go-ahead is launched
Chapter 23 - The grand collapse
29. Texar's Revenge, or, North Against South
Part 1 - Burbank, The Northerner
Part 2 - Texar, The Southerner
30. The Flight to France
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
31. Two Years' Vacation
Part 1
Part 2
32. Family Without a Name
Part 1 - Leader of the Resistance
Part 2 - Into the Abyss
33. The Purchase of the North Pole, or Topsy-Turvy
Chapter 1 - In which the North Polar Practical Association rushes a document across two worlds
Chapter 2 - In which the delegates from England, Holland, Sweden, Denmark and Russia are presented to the reader
Chapter 3 - In which the Arctic regions are sold at auction to the highest bidder
Chapter 4 - In which old acquaintances appear to our new readers, and in which a wonderful man is described
Chapter 5 - In which the possibility that coal mines surround the North Pole is considered
Chapter 6 - In which a telephone communication between Mrs. Scorbitt and J.T. Maston is interrupted
Chapter 7 - In which President Barbicane says no more than suits his purpose
Chapter 8 - Yes, just like Jupiter
Chapter 9 - In which appears the French gentleman to whom we referred at the beginning of this truthful story
Chapter 10 - In which a little uneasiness begins to show itself
Chapter 11 - What was found in the notebook of J.T. Maston and what it no longer contained
Chapter 12 - In which J.T. Maston heroically continues to be silent
Chapter 13 - At the close of which J.T. Maston utters an epigram
Chapter 14 - Very short, but in which “x” takes a geographical value
Chapter 15 - Which contains a few interesting details for the inhabitants of the earthly sphere
Chapter 16 - In which a crowd of dissatisfied people break into the cell of J.T. Maston
Chapter 17 - What had been done at Kilimanjaro during eight month of this memorable year
Chapter 18 - In which the population of Wamasai assemble to hear President Barbicane say “fire” to Capt. Nicholl
Chapter 19 - In which J.T. Maston regrets that the crowd did not lynch him when he was in prison
Chapter 20 - In which this story, as truthful as it is improbable, is finished
Chapter 21 - Very short, since enough has been said to make the world’s population feel perfectly sure again
34. César Cascabel
Part 1
Part 2
35. Mistress Branican
Part 1
Part 2
36. Carpathian Castle
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
37. Claudius Bombarnac
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
38. Foundling Mick
Part 1
Part 2
39. Captain Antifer
Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Chapter 15
Chapter 16
Chapter 17
Chapter 18
Chapter 19
Chapter 20
Chapter 21
Chapter 22
Chapter 23
Chapter 24
Chapter 25
Chapter 26
Chapter 27
Chapter 28
Chapter 29
Chapter 30
Chapter 31
Chapter 32
40. Propeller Island
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Part 1
Part 2
41. Facing the Flag
Chapter 1 - Healthful house
Chapter 2 - Count d'Artigas
Chapter 3 - Kidnapped
Chapter 4 - The Schooner “Ebba”
Chapter 5 - Where am I.--(Notes by Simon Hart, the Engineer.)
Chapter 6 - On deck
Chapter 7 - Two days at sea
Chapter 8 - Back Cup
Chapter 9 - Inside Back Cup
Chapter 10 - Ker Karraje
Chapter 11 - Five weeks in Back Cup
Chapter 12 - Engineer Serko's advice
Chapter 13 - God be with it
Chapter 14 - Battle between the “Sword” and the Tug
Chapter 15 - Expectation
Chapter 16 - Only a few more hours
Chapter 17 - One against five
Chapter 18 - On board the “Tonnant”
42. Clovis Dardentor
Chapter 1 - In which the principal personage of this story is not introduced to the reader
Chapter 2 - In which the principal personage of this story is introduced to the reader
Chapter 3 - In which the principal personage of this story takes the leading position
Chapter 4 - In which Clovis Dardentor says things to the possible advantage of Jean Taconnat
Chapter 5 - In which Patrick continues to think his master sometimes wanting in refinement
Chapter 6 - Occurs in the town of Palma
Chapter 7 - Wherein Clovis Dardentor comes back from the Castle of Bellver more quickly than he went thither
Chapter 8 - In which the Désirandelle family meet the Elissane family
Chapter 9 - In which the covenanted “delay “expires without result either for Marcel Lornans or Jean Taconnat
Chapter 10 - A fine opportunity of rescue on the rail
Chapter 11 - Preparatory to the following chapter
Chapter 12 - The caravan leaves Saïda and arrives at Daya
Chapter 13 - Jean Taconnat is equally grateful and disappointed
Chapter 14 - In which Tlemcen does not receive due attention
Chapter 15 - In which one of the three conditions imposed by a clause in the civil code is at last fulfilled
Chapter 16 - In which this romance comes to a fitting conclusion
43. An Antarctic Mystery
Chapter 1 - The Kerguelen Islands
Chapter 2 - The schooner Halbrane
Chapter 3 - Captain Len Guy
Chapter 4 - From the Kerguelen Isles to Prince Edward Island
Chapter 5 - Edgar Poe’s romance
Chapter 6 - An ocean waif
Chapter 7 - Tristan D’Acunha
Chapter 8 - Bound for the Falklands
Chapter 9 - Fitting out the Halbrane
Chapter 10 - The outset of the enterprise
Chapter 11 - From the Sandwich Islands to the Polar Circle
Chapter 12 - Between the Polar Circle and the Ice Wall
Chapter 13 - Along the front of the icebergs
Chapter 14 - A voice in a dream
Chapter 15 - Bennet Islet
Chapter 16 - Tsalal Island
Chapter 17 - And Pym?
Chapter 18 - A revelation
Chapter 19 - Land?
Chapter 20 - “Unmerciful disaster”
Chapter 21 - Amid the mists
Chapter 22 - In camp
Chapter 23 - Found at last
Chapter 24 - Eleven years in a few pages
Chapter 25 - “We were the first.”
Chapter 26 - A little remnant
44. The Will of an Eccentric
Chapter 1 - A whole town in festivity
Chapter 2 - William J. Hypperbone
Chapter 3 - Oakwood
Chapter 4 - The six
Chapter 5 - The will
Chapter 6 - The board is published
Chapter 7 - The first to start
Chapter 8 - Tom Crabbe entrained by John Milner
Chapter 9 - One and one make two
Chapter 10 - A reporter on his travels
Chapter 11 - The anxieties of Jovita Foley
Chapter 12 - The fifth player
Chapter 13 - The adventures of Commodore Urrican
Chapter 14 - Commodore Urrican’s adventures, continued
Chapter 15 - The situation on the 27th of May
Chapter 16 - The national park
Chapter 17 - One taken for the other
Chapter 18 - The pace of the tortoise
Chapter 19 - The green flag
Chapter 20 - The caves of Kentucky
Chapter 21 - Death Valley
Chapter 22 - The house in South Halsted Street
Chapter 23 - A challenge and its consequences
Chapter 24 - Two hundred dollars a day
Chapter 25 - The peregrinations of Harris T Kymbale
Chapter 26 - The prison of Missouri
Chapter 27 - A sensation for the "Tribune"
Chapter 28 - The last moves of the hypperbone match
Chapter 29 - The bell at Oakwood
Chapter 30 - The final eccentricity
45. Master of the World
Chapter 1 - What happened in the mountains
Chapter 2 - I reach Morganton
Chapter 3 - The Great Eyrie
Chapter 4 - A meeting of the Automobile Club
Chapter 5 - Along the shores of New England
Chapter 6 - The first letter
Chapter 7 - A third machine
Chapter 8 - At any cost
Chapter 9 - The second letter
Chapter 10 - Outside the law
Chapter 11 - The campaign
Chapter 12 - Black Rock creek
Chapter 13 - On board the Terror
Chapter 14 - Niagara
Chapter 15 - The eagle's nest
Chapter 16 - Robur, the conqueror
Chapter 17 - In the name of the law
Chapter 18 - The old housekeeper’s last comment
About the Book & Author
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This Excellent Collection brings together Jules Verne's longer, major books and a fine selection of shorter pieces and Science-Fiction Books. These Books created and collected in Jules Verne's Most important Works illuminate the life and work of one of the most individual writers of the XX century - a man who elevated political writing to an art.
Jules Verne (1828–1905) was a French writer. He was one of the first authors to write science fiction. Some of his books include Journey To The Centre Of The Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).
Jules Verne has earned a place in the history of literature as one of the most important writers of adventure novels of recent history. But his novels contain more than just entertainment. Their pages contain hidden scientific data, descriptions of inventions and, above all, a love of technological innovations and the progress of humanity.
From his perspective as a nineteenth-century man, Verne shocked the world will tales of gadgets and vehicles that, years later, would eventually take shape outside fiction, just as Isaac Asimov did years later. His influence has been such that it has come to serve as an inspiration to an entire cultural and aesthetic movement.
This Collection included:
Five Weeks in a BalloonThe Adventures of Captain HatterasA Journey into the Center of the EarthFrom the Earth to the MoonAround the MoonIn Search of the Castaways20,000 Leagues Under the SeaA Floating CityThe Fur CountryAround the World in Eighty DaysThe Mysterious IslandThe Survivors of the ChancellorMichael Strogoff, or the Courier of the CzarOff on a CometThe Underground City, or the Child of the CavernDick Sand, a Captain at FifteenThe Begum's MillionsTribulations of a Chinaman in ChinaThe Steam HouseEight Hundred Leagues on the AmazonGodfrey MorganThe Green RayKéraban the InflexibleThe Vanished DiamondThe Archipelago on FireMathias SandorfThe Lottery TicketRobur the ConquerorTexar's Revenge, or, North Against SouthThe Flight to FranceTwo Years' VacationFamily Without a NameThe Purchase of the North Pole, or Topsy-TurvyCésar CascabelMistress BranicanCarpathian CastleClaudius BombarnacFoundling MickCaptain AntiferPropeller IslandFacing the FlagClovis DardentorAn Antarctic MysteryThe Will of an EccentricMaster of the World* * *
Who Was Jules Verne?
Jules Verne (February 8, 1828– March 24, 1905) was a French writer. He was one of the first authors to write science fiction. Some of his books include Journey To The Centre Of The Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873)
Life
He was born in the city of Nantes, France. His father was a lawyer, and at the beginning, Verne wanted to study law as well. When he was nineteen, he started writing long pieces of literature, but his father wanted him to earn money as a lawyer, not as a writer. In 1847, his father sent him to Paris to start studying law.In 1848, Jules Verne, on a visit home, fell in love, but the girl's parents did not want her to marry him. Verne was depressed when he heard that the girl had been married to someone else - a rich, older man. In his stories, Jules Verne often writes about women married to people they do not love.He returned to Paris to find it on the verge of revolution: the French Revolution of 1848 deposed the king, and Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte was elected as the first president of the Republic of France. (A republic is a country which does not have a king or queen, but has a president instead.)Verne continued to study law until 1851, but all the time he was writing and meeting with other authors and artists.
Finally, in 1852, he decided to give up being a lawyer, and become a full-time professional writer instead. His father was very unhappy with this decision, but Verne was stubborn and strong-minded, so he went ahead with his plans. Verne went to Paris to try to find success. At first, he did not find any fame. Over time, he became a fan of science, while becoming well known for his writing. His love of science and writing led him to write stories and novels that are now called "science fiction". Many people say Jules Verne was the creator of the science fiction genre.
Verne lived to write. He wrote many stories. These included fiction novels, theater works, and other novels. In 1886, his young nephew, Gaston, who had paranoia, shot Verne in the leg. After that, Verne had a permanent limp in his leg. This may have resulted in his darker writing styles in that time period.
Verne married Aimée du Fraysse de Viane in January 1857 with his father's blessing. In August 1861, their son was born. He continued to write until his death. On 24th of March 1905, Verne, who was sick with diabetes, died at his home in Amiens, France.
Jules Verne and Inventions
Jules Verne wrote about many things which did not exist when he was alive. Some of these things later became real. Verne was far from being a scientist, but his passion for technology and the progress being made at the time served to introduce many of the inventions that were to come and that, over time, have ended up becoming ordinary elements of our every-day life.
Electric Submarine
In Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Captain Nemo and his electric submarine were a modern marvel. Electricity was very new at the time, and had never been used to power an underwater ship.
The News on the Radio and Television
In an 1889 article, "In the Year 2889," Jules Verne described an alternative to newspapers:
"Instead of being printed, the Earth Chronicle is every morning spoken to subscribers, who, from interesting conversations with reporters, statesmen and scientists, learn the news of the day."
The first newscast didn't happen until 1920, according to the Associated Press—nearly 30 years after Verne imagined it.
Lunar Modules
Jules Verne wrote about "projectiles" in From the Earth to the Moon. These projectiles would carry people to the moon. Verne imagined a big gun which would force the module up to the moon. Today, space modules are sent into space at the top of rockets, which force the module beyond the reach of gravity.
Music Players and Holographs
In The Carpathian Castle, some villagers are terrified of a certain castle, from which they can hear voices and see shapes. An intrigued visitor decides to see what is happening, and he finds out that they were hearing just recorded sounds and holographic images.
Jules VerneCollection
“The CompleteWorks”
by
Jules Verne
Dedication
To
The Memory of Alexandre Dumas
RELATIONSHIP WITH SCIENCE FICTION
Caricature of Verne with fantastic sea life (1884)
The relationship between Verne's Voyages extraordinaires and the literary genre science fiction is a complex one. Verne, like H. G. Wells, is frequently cited as one of the founders of the genre, and his profound influence on its development is indisputable; however, many earlier writers, such as Lucian of Samosata, Voltaire, and Mary Shelley, have also been cited as creators of science fiction, an unavoidable ambiguity arising from the vague definition and history of the genre.
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A primary issue at the heart of the dispute is the question of whether Verne's works count as science fiction to begin with. Maurice Renard claimed that Verne "never wrote a single sentence of scientific-marvelous". Verne himself argued repeatedly in interviews that his novels were not meant to be read as scientific, saying "I have invented nothing". His own goal was rather to "depict the earth [and] at the same time to realize a very high ideal of beauty of style", as he pointed out in an example:
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“I wrote Five Weeks in a Balloon, not as a story about ballooning, but as a story about Africa. I always was greatly interested in geography, history and travel, and I wanted to give a romantic description of Africa. Now, there was no means of taking my travellers through Africa otherwise than in a balloon, and that is why a balloon is introduced.… I may say that at the time I wrote the novel, as now, I had no faith in the possibility of ever steering balloons…”
THE AUTHOR.
EXTRAORDINARY VOYAGES SERIES
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1. Five Weeks in a Balloon
“Or Journeys & Discoveries in Africa by Three Englishmen”
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Map of novel Five Weeks in a Balloon.
Chapter 1
The End of a much-applauded Speech.—The Presentation of Dr. Samuel Ferguson.—Excelsior.—Full-length Portrait of the Doctor.—A Fatalist convinced.—A Dinner at the Travellers' Club.—Several Toasts for the Occasion.
THERE was a large audience assembled on the 14th of January, 1862, at the session of the Royal Geographical Society, No. 3 Waterloo Place, London. The president, Sir Francis M——, made an important communication to his colleagues, in an address that was frequently interrupted by applause.
This rare specimen of eloquence terminated with the following sonorous phrases bubbling over with patriotism:
"England has always marched at the head of nations" (for, the reader will observe, the nations always march at the head of each other), "by the intrepidity of her explorers in the line of geographical discovery." (General assent). "Dr. Samuel Ferguson, one of her most glorious sons, will not reflect discredit on his origin." ("No, indeed!" from all parts of the hall.)
"This attempt, should it succeed" ("It will succeed!"), "will complete and link together the notions, as yet disjointed, which the world entertains of African cartology" (vehement applause); "and, should it fail, it will, at least, remain on record as one of the most daring conceptions of human genius!" (Tremendous cheering.)
"Huzza! huzza!" shouted the immense audience, completely electrified by these inspiring words.
"Huzza for the intrepid Ferguson!" cried one of the most excitable of the enthusiastic crowd.
The wildest cheering resounded on all sides; the name of Ferguson was in every mouth, and we may safely believe that it lost nothing in passing through English throats. Indeed, the hall fairly shook with it.
And there were present, also, those fearless travellers and explorers whose energetic temperaments had borne them through every quarter of the globe, many of them grown old and worn out in the service of science. All had, in some degree, physically or morally, undergone the sorest trials. They had escaped shipwreck; conflagration; Indian tomahawks and war-clubs; the fagot and the stake; nay, even the cannibal maws of the South Sea Islanders. But still their hearts beat high during Sir Francis M——'s address, which certainly was the finest oratorical success that the Royal Geographical Society of London had yet achieved.
But, in England, enthusiasm does not stop short with mere words. It strikes off money faster than the dies of the Royal Mint itself. So a subscription to encourage Dr. Ferguson was voted there and then, and it at once attained the handsome amount of two thousand five hundred pounds. The sum was made commensurate with the importance of the enterprise.
A member of the Society then inquired of the president whether Dr. Ferguson was not to be officially introduced.
"The doctor is at the disposition of the meeting," replied Sir Francis.
"Let him come in, then! Bring him in!" shouted the audience. "We'd like to see a man of such extraordinary daring, face to face!"
"Perhaps this incredible proposition of his is only intended to mystify us," growled an apoplectic old admiral.
"Suppose that there should turn out to be no such person as Dr. Ferguson?" exclaimed another voice, with a malicious twang.
"Why, then, we'd have to invent one!" replied a facetious member of this grave Society.
"Ask Dr. Ferguson to come in," was the quiet remark of Sir Francis M——.
And come in the doctor did, and stood there, quite unmoved by the thunders of applause that greeted his appearance.
He was a man of about forty years of age, of medium height and physique. His sanguine temperament was disclosed in the deep color of his cheeks. His countenance was coldly expressive, with regular features, and a large nose—one of those noses that resemble the prow of a ship, and stamp the faces of men predestined to accomplish great discoveries. His eyes, which were gentle and intelligent, rather than bold, lent a peculiar charm to his physiognomy. His arms were long, and his feet were planted with that solidity which indicates a great pedestrian.
A calm gravity seemed to surround the doctor's entire person, and no one would dream that he could become the agent of any mystification, however harmless.
Hence, the applause that greeted him at the outset continued until he, with a friendly gesture, claimed silence on his own behalf. He stepped toward the seat that had been prepared for him on his presentation, and then, standing erect and motionless, he, with a determined glance, pointed his right forefinger upward, and pronounced aloud the single word—
"Excelsior!"
Never had one of Bright's or Cobden's sudden onslaughts, never had one of Palmerston's abrupt demands for funds to plate the rocks of the English coast with iron, made such a sensation. Sir Francis M——'s address was completely overshadowed. The doctor had shown himself moderate, sublime, and self-contained, in one; he had uttered the word of the situation—
"Excelsior!"
The gouty old admiral who had been finding fault, was completely won over by the singular man before him, and immediately moved the insertion of Dr. Ferguson's speech in "The Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society of London."
Who, then, was this person, and what was the enterprise that he proposed?
Ferguson's father, a brave and worthy captain in the English Navy, had associated his son with him, from the young man's earliest years, in the perils and adventures of his profession. The fine little fellow, who seemed to have never known the meaning of fear, early revealed a keen and active mind, an investigating intelligence, and a remarkable turn for scientific study; moreover, he disclosed uncommon address in extricating himself from difficulty; he was never perplexed, not even in handling his fork for the first time—an exercise in which children generally have so little success.
His fancy kindled early at the recitals he read of daring enterprise and maritime adventure, and he followed with enthusiasm the discoveries that signalized the first part of the nineteenth century. He mused over the glory of the Mungo Parks, the Bruces, the Caillies, the Levaillants, and to some extent, I verily believe, of Selkirk (Robinson Crusoe), whom he considered in no wise inferior to the rest. How many a well-employed hour he passed with that hero on his isle of Juan Fernandez! Often he criticised the ideas of the shipwrecked sailor, and sometimes discussed his plans and projects. He would have done differently, in such and such a case, or quite as well at least—of that he felt assured. But of one thing he was satisfied, that he never should have left that pleasant island, where he was as happy as a king without subjects— no, not if the inducement held out had been promotion to the first lordship in the admiralty!
It may readily be conjectured whether these tendencies were developed during a youth of adventure, spent in every nook and corner of the Globe. Moreover, his father, who was a man of thorough instruction, omitted no opportunity to consolidate this keen intelligence by serious studies in hydrography, physics, and mechanics, along with a slight tincture of botany, medicine, and astronomy.
Upon the death of the estimable captain, Samuel Ferguson, then twenty-two years of age, had already made his voyage around the world. He had enlisted in the Bengalese Corps of Engineers, and distinguished himself in several affairs; but this soldier's life had not exactly suited him; caring but little for command, he had not been fond of obeying. He, therefore, sent in his resignation, and half botanizing, half playing the hunter, he made his way toward the north of the Indian Peninsula, and crossed it from Calcutta to Surat—a mere amateur trip for him.
From Surat we see him going over to Australia, and in 1845 participating in Captain Sturt's expedition, which had been sent out to explore the new Caspian Sea, supposed to exist in the centre of New Holland.
Samuel Ferguson returned to England about 1850, and, more than ever possessed by the demon of discovery, he spent the intervening time, until 1853, in accompanying Captain McClure on the expedition that went around the American Continent from Behring's Straits to Cape Farewell.
Notwithstanding fatigues of every description, and in all climates, Ferguson's constitution continued marvellously sound. He felt at ease in the midst of the most complete privations; in fine, he was the very type of the thoroughly accomplished explorer whose stomach expands or contracts at will; whose limbs grow longer or shorter according to the resting-place that each stage of a journey may bring; who can fall asleep at any hour of the day or awake at any hour of the night.
Nothing, then, was less surprising, after that, than to find our traveller, in the period from 1855 to 1857, visiting the whole region west of the Thibet, in company with the brothers Schlagintweit, and bringing back some curious ethnographic observations from that expedition.
During these different journeys, Ferguson had been the most active and interesting correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, the penny newspaper whose circulation amounts to 140,000 copies, and yet scarcely suffices for its many legions of readers. Thus, the doctor had become well known to the public, although he could not claim membership in either of the Royal Geographical Societies of London, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, or St. Petersburg, or yet with the Travellers' Club, or even the Royal Polytechnic Institute, where his friend the statistician Cockburn ruled in state.
The latter savant had, one day, gone so far as to propose to him the following problem: Given the number of miles travelled by the doctor in making the circuit of the Globe, how many more had his head described than his feet, by reason of the different lengths of the radii?—or, the number of miles traversed by the doctor's head and feet respectively being given, required the exact height of that gentleman?
This was done with the idea of complimenting him, but the doctor had held himself aloof from all the learned bodies—belonging, as he did, to the church militant and not to the church polemical. He found his time better employed in seeking than in discussing, in discovering rather than discoursing.
There is a story told of an Englishman who came one day to Geneva, intending to visit the lake. He was placed in one of those odd vehicles in which the passengers sit side by side, as they do in an omnibus. Well, it so happened that the Englishman got a seat that left him with his back turned toward the lake. The vehicle completed its circular trip without his thinking to turn around once, and he went back to London delighted with the Lake of Geneva.
