Writing in France in the nineteenth century, Jules Verne captured his era's fascination with adventure and exploration in a series of novels he referred to as his Voyages extraordinaries. This book collects six of Verne's best-known novels that extrapolate developing technology and scientific inquisitiveness into rousing adventures. Five weeks in a balloon -- Journey to the center of the earth -- From the earth to the moon -- Round the moon -- Twenty thousand leagues under the sea -- Around the world in eighty days.