Celebrated Travels and Travellers: Part 3

A coded manuscript sends a professor, his nephew and an Icelandic guide down a volcano and into a world of underground oceans and living fossils. The purest expression of what Verne did better than anyone.

Jules Verne

A captain drives his crew towards the North Pole with an obsession that shades into madness, through pack ice, mutiny and starvation. The Arctic novel Verne wrote before anyone had actually reached the pole.

Jules Verne

Verne wrote a direct sequel to Poe's Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, sending a ship south to find out what really happened. Half homage, half rebuttal, and the strangest book in the catalogue.

Jules Verne

A trading post is built on the Arctic coast, and the ground it stands on turns out to be an ice floe that is drifting out to sea. One of Verne's best premises, and it is delivered without a wasted chapter.

Jules Verne

A father and a fiancée sail north to look for a missing ship and end up wintering in the pack ice themselves. A short work that shows the Arctic material Verne would spend whole novels on later.

Jules Verne