During the American Civil War, the city of Richmond, Virginia, is plagued by famine and death. The city is under siege, and everyone is looking for a way to escape. Five prisoners of war decide to resort to an unlikely form of escape: a hot-air balloon. They are accompanied by a dog, and their journey […]
Jules Vernes career as a novelist began in 1863, when he struck a new vein in fiction-stories that combined popular science and exploration. In Around the World in Eighty Days, Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions ?20,000 that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days, and he is determined not to […]
Im going to sink it. You are not! I am, he coldly replied. Do not take it on yourself to judge me, monsieur. French naturalist Dr. Aronnax embarks on an expedition to hunt down a sea monster, only to discover instead the Nautilus, a remarkable submarine built by the enigmatic Captain Nemo. Together Nemo and […]