Celebrated Travels and Travellers: Part 1
Jules Verne
Verne's history of exploration, opening with the ancient world and running through Marco Polo, the Portuguese navigators and the first circumnavigations. Nonfiction, heavily illustrated, and the research behind the novels.
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Celebrated Travels and Travellers: Part 2The eighteenth century volume, covering Cook, Bougainville and the great Pacific surveys. Verne is writing as a historian here, and the maps and engravings carry as much of the story as the text.
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The nineteenth century volume, following the push into Africa, central Asia and the poles by the explorers Verne was reading in the newspapers. The closest thing to a source list for the Voyages Extraordinaires.
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A gun club with nothing left to shoot at decides to fire a manned projectile at the moon, and the sequel follows the capsule the whole way there. Verne worked out the launch site, the escape velocity and the crew size decades before any space agency existed.
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The direct sequel to From the Earth to the Moon, picking up with the capsule already in flight and its three passengers circling a world nobody had seen up close. Half adventure, half thought experiment in orbital mechanics.
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A comet clips the Mediterranean and carries off a slice of the Earth, along with the people standing on it. What follows is a survival story played out on a runaway world with its own gravity, seasons and orbit.
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