The Jules Verne Collection (Boxed Set)

Set off on unbelievable adventures with eight of Jules Verne's most popular adventure and science fiction novels in this seven-volume hardcover collectible boxed setnow with an arresting new look! When Professor Lidenbrock, in Journey to the Center of the Earth, finds a coded journal describing a path into the center of the Earth, it's his nephew, Axel, who cracks the code, and the two head to Iceland to locate the hidden route. From the Earth to the Moon and its sequel, Around the Moon, combined here in one volume, have members of a post-American Civil War gun club set an extreme challenge to build a gun large enough to shoot a man to the moon. The engineering challenge undertaken in part one culminates in three voyagers' expedition to the moon and back in part two. A message in a bottle launches a rescue expedition for a shipwreck to many possible countries on the thirty-seventh parallel south where the stranded captain could