Verne, Jules

The herculean Strogoff is sent by the Czar with a letter to a commandant in Irkutsk, beleaguered by hordes of Tartars. Traversing the vast extent of Siberia, accompanied by a beautiful girl, he encounters every conceivable kind of peril, but escapes, and executes his mission.

In the pages of an ancient Runic manuscript, Professor Hardwigg finds a yellowed parchment bearing a coded message from the famous 16th Century alchemist Arne Saknussemm. When the professor's nephew Harry deciphers its amazing contents, the two scientists secretly set out for Iceland and a forgotten volcanic crater. Their final destination -- the center of the Earth!.

Phileas Fogg and his valet Passepartout are two still-famous travellers. In their time (the 1870's) their journey was a miracle indeed.

A nineteenth-century science fiction tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and undersea world, which anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century.