Writing in France in the nineteenth century, Jules Verne captured his era's fascination with adventure and exploration in a series of novels he referred to as his Voyages extraordinaries. This book collects six of Verne's best-known novels that extrapolate developing technology and scientific inquisitiveness into rousing adventures.

Five weeks in a balloon --
Journey to the center of the earth --
From the earth to the moon --
Round the moon --
Twenty thousand leagues under the sea --
Around the world in eighty days.