The Adventures of a Special Correspondent

Phileas Fogg bets his fortune that he can circle the globe in eighty days and leaves the same evening. A chase story built on real steamship and railway timetables, and the tightest plot Verne ever wrote.

Jules Verne

Three men cross Africa east to west by balloon, over territory no European had mapped. This was the first of the Voyages Extraordinaires and the book that made Verne a professional novelist.

Jules Verne

A courier rides five thousand kilometres across Siberia carrying a message that cannot be written down, through a rebellion that wants him dead. Many readers rate it the best adventure novel Verne produced.

Jules Verne

A French circus family loses its savings in California and decides to get home the long way, by wagon across Alaska, the frozen Bering Strait and Siberia. Warm, strange and completely unlike the rest of the catalogue.

Jules Verne

A Turkish merchant refuses to pay a small toll to cross the Bosphorus, so he travels the entire way around the Black Sea instead. This edition carries the first of the two volumes of the original English translation, which is the only part in the public domain online.

Jules Verne