20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and other Classic Novels

Writing in France in the nineteenth century, Jules Verne captured his era's fascination with adventure and exploration in a series of novels he referred to as his Voyages extraordinaires. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Other Classic Novels is a unique compilation of six of Verne's best-known novels that extrapolate developing technology and scientific inquisitiveness into rousing adventures as exciting and provocative today as when they were first written. Five Weeks in a Balloon: By means of a hot-air balloon, Dr. Smauel Fergusson and company traverse Africa, a continent whose many marvels have yet to be fully appreciated by western civilization. A Journey to the Center of the Earth: In a subterranean world accessed through a dormant volcano, explorers find a primeval land where the prehistoric still holds sway. From the Earth to the Moon: By means of a giant cannon, members of the Baltimore Gun Club achieve the first manned expedition to the surface of the moon. Round the Moon: Having enjoyed their adventure, members of the first manned lunar expedition must now figure out how to return to Earth. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea: Piloting his submarine, the Nautilus, Captain Nemo makes extraordinary discoveries of undersea flora and fauna, even as he plots to undermine the land-based civilization that he believes has betrayed him. Around the World in Eighty Days: When Phileas Fogg accepts the challenge to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days, even he cannot anticipate the exotic adventures his race with initiate. --