As Radio 4 embarks on a journey To the Ends of the Earth with a set of Victorian adventure stories, we examine how the work of 19th-century French novelist Jules ... Verne’s heroes The steampunk ...

The standard biography, Jules Verne: Sa Vie et son oeuvre (Paris 1928), by Mme. Allotte de la Fuÿe, Verne's niece, though useful, fails to clear up many of the mysteries. Verne's work also seems ...

Using early Hollywood as a touchstone, the original adaptation of "Journey to the Center of the Earth" penned by a professor ...

Even its first publication – the novel was featured in the popular French magazine Magasin d’Education et de Récréation ... between Jules Verne and his publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel proves that the ...

Simon Lake (1866-1945), submarine designer Simon Lake was a US naval architect who designed some of the first submarines for ...