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North Pole. Led by captain Jon Hatteras, the team must survive a series of vicissitudes including mutiny, barren landscapes, and some events that men do not walk away from the same. The chapters of this book include: An Unexpected Letter, Dr. Clawbonny, Dog-Captain, Out at Sea,... Read Full Overview

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Jules Gabriel Verne (1828-1905) was a French author who pioneered the science-fiction genre. He is best known for novels such as Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Verne wrote about... Read Full Overview

"The English at the North Pole Part I" from Jules Verne. French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels (1828-1905).

This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections
such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact,
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Verne wrote about space, air and underwater travel before air travel and practical submarines were invented, and before practical means of space travel had been devised.

To a thinker, a dreamer, or a philosopher, nothing is more affecting than the departure of a ship -- for at the sight, the imagination runs loose and plays round the sails -- it sees her struggles with the sea and the wind in the adventurous journey, which does not... Read Full Overview