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This masterpiece relates entirely to the science of astronomy. It is a sequel to "All Around The Moon," and continues the career of Hector Servadac and ''his friends on the comet " Gallia," and relates their approach to the planet Jupiter. It is full of adventures of the most wonderful kind,and is embellished by plenty of very good illustrations.

Jules Verne, in this chief of his works, has set himself to tell the story of all the most stirring adventure of which we have any written record—to give the history, "from the time of Hanno and Herodotus down to that of Livingstone and Stanley," of those voyages of exploration and discovery which are among the most exciting episodes in the history of human enterprise. The wonderful journey of Marco Polo; the voyages of Columbus and Vasco da Gama; the conquests of Cortez and Pizarro; the old Arctic discoveries; the explorations of the Jesuit missionaries in North America—these exploits form a worthy subject for the most ambitious work of such a writer; and when he brings to the treatment of such material all the dash and vivid picluresqueness of his own creations, it may be imagined that he makes a book worth reading.

Jules Verne has invented so many tales of adventure that he is quite at home when he comes to chronicle the wonderful feats of exploration which testify that truth is stranger than fiction. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century is the second volume in his work Celebrated Travels and Travelers. It is profusely illustrated and has many maps. The period it deals with is less prolific in wonderful discoveries, but fuller information is accessible concerning those which were made. The voyages of Captain Cook and his predecessors, the exploits of the French navigators and the early African explorations, fill a large portion of the space. Separate chapters are also given to discoveries in Asia and North and South America.

This forms the third and concluding volume of Verne''s Celebrated Travels an Travellers. One is struck with the great mass of interesting matter, geographical, ethnological, and other, which is here compacted together; bespeaking as it does no small amount of research, an still more afiording fresh evidence of that instinctive perception of the popular which is, to a large extent, the secret of the author''s success in his numerous works. A preliminary chapter is devoted to a general survey of explorations by Seetzen, Burckhardt, Webb, an others in the East in the early part of the century-—a survey very interesting so far as it goes, but superficial. The value of the work, however, grows as it advances, the story of African travel evidently drawing out the author''s enthusiasm more successfully; and the expeditions of Clapperton and the Landers are narrated with greater fulness, and with more sympathy. The whole of the second part of the book is devoted to Polar Explorers and Circumnavigators, and the stirring careers of Kotzebue and Krusenstern, of Bougainville and Freycinet, as well as of James Clark Ross and John Ross, Parry and Franklin, are concisely and graphically recorded.

This carefully crafted ebook: "JULES VERNE Ultimate Collection: Science Fiction Classics, Action & Adventure Novels, Historical Works (Illustrated)" is formatted for your eReader with a functional and detailed table of contents:NovelsFive Weeks in a BalloonJourney to the Centre of the Earth From the Earth to the MoonAround the MoonThe Adventures of Captain HatterasIn Search of the CastawaysTwenty Thousand Leagues Under the SeaA Floating CityThe Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South AfricaThe Fur CountryAround the World in Eighty DaysThe Mysterious IslandThe Survivors of the ChancellorMichael StrogoffHector ServadacThe Underground CityDick Sand, A Captain at FifteenThe Begum''s FortuneTribulations of a Chinaman in ChinaThe Steam HouseEight Hundred Leagues on the AmazonGodfrey Morgan or, The Robinson Crusoe SchoolThe Green RayMathias SandorfThe Star of the SouthTicket No. "9672"Robur the ConquerorThe Master of the WorldThe Waif of "Cynthia"North Against South or, Texar''s RevengeThe Flight to France or, The Memoirs of a DragoonKéraban the InflexibleAdrift in Pacific or, Two Years'' VacationTopsy TurvyCæsar CascabelMistress BranicanThe Castle of the CarpathiansClaudius BombarnacCaptain AntiferFacing the FlagAn Antarctic MysteryShort StoriesA Voyage in a BalloonA Drama in MexicoMaster ZachariusA Winter Amid The IceThe Blockade RunnersDoctor Ox''s ExperimentMartin PazAscent of Mont BlancThe Mutineers of the BountyFrritt-FlaccAn Express of the FutureIn The Year 2889TravelThe Exploration of the WorldThe Great Navigators of the 18th CenturyThe Great Explorers of 19th CenturyMiscellaneousA Chinese BanquetJules Gabriel Verne (1828-1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction.