Jules Verne:A Collection Of Novels: (Wilco Leather Bound)

The collection includes:

1) Five Weeks in a Balloon
Five Weeks in a Balloon by Jules Verne describes a journey undertaken by three British gentlemen across the continent of Africa, from Zanzibar to the French settlement near the Senegal River. Written in 1863, it details the adventure that Dr. Ferguson embarks on with a friend and his servant, Joe, in a hot air balloon. Balancing scientific facts with historical fact, the adventurers observe the wild life, the flora, the hunting game spread across the region, the various tribes, the cannibals, play-act as gods, escape rampaging apes, save a missionary while also trying to find the origins of the Nile.

2) Around the World in Eighty Days
Around the World in Eighty Days is a travel novel with some adventure. The story starts with Phileas Fogg, a taciturn, unflappable English gentleman who engages a new valet, Jean Passepartout. Mr. Fogg gets into a wager at his club to prove that a trip around the world takes only 80 days. With a perplexed and flustered Passepartout, they board the train at Dover to start the journey. What follows is an adventure that includes travelling on an elephant, saving an Indian lady, Passepartout costing his master dearly with his own misadventures; all while being chased by a detective who was convinced of Mr. Fogg being a robber. 

3) Journey to the Center of the Earth
The Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne is the second most popular story from the series, Voyages Extraordinaire. This fantastical journey starts when Professor Hardwigg, an eccentric mineralogist, discovers a separate note written in a runic message by Icelandic alchemist Arne Saknussemm. This note, when translated into Latin, detailed his journey into the centre of the earth through a volcano in Iceland. This causes the Professor and his excitable, pessimistic nephew to embark on a journey to Iceland, where they recruit, Hans their enigmatic Icelandic guide, and off they go to Mount Snaefell, a dormant volcano. Thus starts their adventure as they battle heights, gigantic monsters, thirst and a massive central sea. How will it all end?

4) Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea
The most popular of Jules Verne’s Voyages extraordinaires — Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea mixes scientific facts and an underwater sea adventure. In this book, French Naturalist Professor Pierre Arronax is attached to an American frigate, the Abraham Lincoln, tasked with the investigation of a series of attacks on ships by a supposed marine monster. When their frigate is attacked by the monster, which was actually the submarine Nautilus, owned and run by Caption Nemo, Dr. Arronax, his servant Conseil, and harpooner Ned Land become his prisoners. Thus begins a 10-month adventure that takes the three and the submarine on a trip around the world.