Topsy-Turvy

Jules Verne

• 27 november 2011
• 9782819910138

Samenvatting:

The Gun Club of Baltimore is surely the most famous Gun Club in the world -- for did not this madly ambitious group launch a capsule from the Earth's surface up through the atmosphere, and then beyond, toward the Moon?


Now Barbicane and Nicholl's famous club is engaged in an absurdly massive project once again, a project of literally Earth-shaking proportions. Barbicane has purchased the northern polar ice cap -- for its thick veins of coal. And the plan is no less than to tip the Earth on its axis, to bring a temperate climate around the globe . . . and enable the mining of those valuable deposits!


Written two decades after "From the Earth to the Moon," Jules Verne's visionary novel "Sans Dessus Dessous," known in English as "Topsy-Turvy," or "The Purchase of the North Pole," saw first publication in 1889.