Jules Verne:A Collection Of Novels: (Wilco Leather Bound)

The collection includes:

1) Five Weeks in a Balloon Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne describes a journey undertaken by three British gentlemen across the continent of Africa, from Zanzibar to the French settlement near the Senegal River. Written in 1863, it details the adventure that Dr. Ferguson embarks on with a friend and his servant, Joe, in a hot air balloon. Balancing scientific facts with historical fact, the adventurers observe the wild life, the flora, the hunting game spread across the region, the various tribes, the cannibals, play-act as gods, escape rampaging apes, save a missionary while also trying to find the origins of the Nile. The book showcases the effort of the western world, especially that of the Europeans, to understand and discover this impenetrable continent.

2) Journey to the Center of the Earth The Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne is the second most popular story from the series, Voyages Extraordinaire. This fantastical journey starts when Professor Hardwigg, an eccentric mineralogist, discovers a separate note written in a runic message by Icelandic alchemist Arne Saknussemm. This note, when translated into Latin, detailed his journey into the centre of the earth through a volcano in Iceland. This causes the Professor and his excitable, pessimistic nephew to embark on a journey to Iceland, where they recruit, Hans their enigmatic Icelandic guide, and off they go to Mount Snaefell, a dormant volcano. Thus starts their adventure as they battle heights, gigantic monsters, thirst and a massive central sea. How will it all end?

3) From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon When Impey Barbicane, the president of the Baltimore Gun Club proposes the ambitious project of shooting a projectile to the Moon, it is welcomed with great enthusiasm by the members of the Club who had not been able to make use of their gunnery skills since the end of the American Civil War. The proposal soon captures the public imagination and financial aid pours in from all over the world to make this extraordinary mission a success. Preparations for the launch are in full swing when Michel Ardan, a Frenchman, writes to Barbicane informing him of his desire to travel to the moon inside the projectile. Will Barbicane’s project be a success? Will Michel Arden travel to the Moon?

4) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea The most popular of Jules Verne’s Voyages extraordinaires—Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea mixes scientific facts and an underwater sea adventure. In this book, French Naturalist Professor Pierre Arronax is attached to an American frigate, the Abraham Lincoln, tasked with the investigation of a series of attacks on ships by a supposed marine monster. When their frigate is attacked by the monster, which was actually the submarine Nautilus, owned and run by Caption Nemo, Dr. Arronax, his servant Conseil, and harpooner Ned Land become his prisoners. Thus begins a 10-month adventure that takes the three and the submarine on a trip around the world.

5) Around the World in Eighty Days Around the World in Eighty Days is a travel novel with some adventure. The story starts with Phileas Fogg, a taciturn, unflappable English gentleman who engages a new valet, Jean Passepartout. Mr. Fogg gets into a wager at his club to prove that a trip around the world takes only 80 days. With a perplexed and flustered Passepartout, they board the train at Dover to start the journey. What follows is an adventure that includes travelling on an elephant, saving an Indian lady, Passepartout costing his master dearly with his own misadventures; all while being chased by a detective who was convinced of Mr. Fogg being a robber.

6) The Mysterious Island The Mysterious Island follows the adventure of five Northern prisoners of the American Civil War and a pooch as they escape in a hijacked hydrogen-filled balloon. The story revolves around the constant effort of man to conquer nature and nature’s constant endeavour to overpower man. Harding, Spilett, Pencroft, Neb and Herbert arrive as castaways to a faraway, exotic, volcanic island in the Pacific and name it the Lincoln Island. There they build a colony from scratch with their technical skill, teamwork and scientific knowledge. However, the island holds a mystery for them. They discover that someone is observing them and saving their lives from attacks by wild animals and pirates. Will the castaways succeed in reaching their goal or will they be overpowered by the forces of nature?

7) An Antarctic Mystery Mr. Jeorling has been stuck at the Kerguelen Islands, situated in the southern part of the Indian Ocean, for two months. Mr. Atkins of the Green Cormorant has assured him that the whaling-ships will be coming in soon. However, when the schooner Halbrane finally reaches its shores, its captain—Len Guy refuses to take Mr. Jeorling onboard as a passenger. Why is the captain against taking passengers on his ship? Does the narrator finally succeed in convincing him? What mystery lurks in the frozen quarters of the Antarctic regions? An Antarctic Mystery, published in 1897, keeps its readers on the edge as it ventures into unknown territories, and weaves a brilliant tale of love, compassion and daring.