Jules VERNE & Jules VERNE 
The exploration of the world 

In this chief of his works, Jules Verne has set himself to tell the story of all the most stirring adventures of which we have any written record – to give the history, ‘from the time of Hanno and Herodotus down to that of Livingstone and Stanley, ‘ of those voyages of exploration and discovery which are among the most thrilling episodes in the history of human enterprise.