I do keep dipping into this and reading a story occasionally, but find it quite disturbing at times due to the racism so can only manage about 1 story a year at most. The view of Europeans back then towards Africa and its people was appalling, to put it mildly.
But it was what it was, and Jules is worth reading if you can get your head around the historical prejudices of his day. Where would steampunk be if not for writers like Jules Verne? And that’s who i would certainly recommend this to, anyone who has any love of ‘Steampunk’ should go back and read some of the earliest books of the genre, long before the genre even existed. Also good stuff for ‘Vic Lit’ fans too.
The Novels
Five Weeks in a Balloon
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
From the Earth to the Moon
The Adventures of Captain Hatteras
The Children of Captain Grant
Around the Moon
Twenty Thousand leagues Under the Sea
A Floating City
The Adventures of Three Englishment and Three Russians in South African
The Fur Country
Around the World in Eighty Days
The Mysterious Island
The Survivors of the Chancellor
Michael Strogoff
Off on a Comet
The Underground City
Dick Sand: a Captain at Fifteen
The Begum’s Fortune
Tribulations of a Chinaman in China
The Steam house
Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
The Green Ray
The School for Robinsons
Kéraban the Inflexible
The Archipelego on Fire
The Star of the South
Mathias Sandorf
Robur the Conqueror
The Lottery Ticket
The Flight to France
The Wreck of the Cynthia
North Against South
Two Years Holiday
The Purchase of the North Pole
Family Without a Name
César Cascabel
Mistress Branican
The Carpathian Castle
Claudius Bombarnac
Foundling Mick
The Adventures of Captain Antifer
The Floating Island
Facing the Flag
Clovis Dardentor
The Sphinx of the Ice Firelds
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket — Edgar Allan Poe
The Will of an Eccentric
Master of the World
The Short Stories
Martin Paz
The Blockade Runners
Dr. Ox and Other Stories
Frritt-Flacc
Yesterday and Tomorrow
A Drama in Mexico
The Mutineers of the Bounty
In the Year 2889
An Express of the Future
The Non-Fiction
Celebrated Travels and Travellers
I. The Exploration of the World
II. The Great Navigators of the Eighteenth Century
III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century
Now i have the ‘Infinite Improbability Drive’ picking out my next book i might actually get around to reading some of this. 