Off on a Comet! (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781438519524)

Jules Verne was born in 1828 in France. His dream was to write a new kind of novel, which combined scientific fact with fiction. Verne eventually wrote 40 novels in his Voyages extraordinaires series. "What one man can imagine, another will someday be able to achieve." Is a quote from an article in the Encyclopedia Britannica that sums up Verne so well. From the introduction, "The earth and a comet are brought twice into collision without mankind in general, or even our astronomers, becoming conscious of the fact. Moreover several people from widely scattered places are carried off by the comet and returned uninjured. Yet further, the comet snatches for the convenience of its travelers, both air and water. Little, useful tracts of earth are picked up and, as it were, turned over and clapped down right side up again upon the comet's surface. Even ships pass uninjured through this remarkable somersault. These events all belong frankly to the realm of fairyland."

Author: Jules Verne
ISBN-10: 1438519524
ISBN-13: 9781438519524
Publisher: Book Jungle
Language: English
Published: 06/08/2009
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.04lbs
Size: 9.25h x 7.50w x 0.57d