Jules Verne
In the midst of the American Civil War, five prisoners hijack a hot air balloon to make their escape. Caught in the winds of a violent storm, the balloon is blown far, far away from its point of departure in Richmond, Virginia. When the craft crash-lands, its passengers find themselves castaways on an exotic island....
en l'année 1872, la maison portant le numéro 7 de Saville-Row, Burlington Gardens, -maison dans laquelle Shéridan mourut en 1814, -était habitée par Phileas Fogg, esq., l'un des membres les plus singuliers et les plus remarqués du reform-club de Londres, bien qu'il semblât prendre à tâche de ne rien faire qui pût attirer l'attention.
Fans of classic adventure fiction will delight in Jules Verne's An Antarctic Mystery. The novel follows the journey of fictional explorer Pym, who also appeared in Edgar Allen Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket, through the eyes of an American explorer who is surveying the Kerguelen Islands.
What would it be like to explore a largely unknown swath of the world—from the air? That's exactly what the intrepid explorers in Jules Verne's Five Weeks in a Balloon set out to do in this novel, an early entrant in the literature describing European exploration of Africa. Like many of Verne's novels, this tale is so richly detailed and historically accurate that you'll feel like you've actually come along for the ride.