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  1. The Blockade Runners

    Verne, Jules
    Saga Egmont

    Combining romance and adventure, ‘The Blockade Runners’ is set in both Scotland and the south of America, as the American Civil War looks to become a reality. Scottish entrepreneur...

  2. The Survivors of the Chancellor

    Verne, Jules
    Saga Egmont

    ‘The Survivors of the Chancellor’ is a tale of shipwreck, betrayal, and intrigue. Written as journal entries from the perspective of passenger, JR Kazallon, the story starts innoce...

  3. Facing the Flag

    Verne, Jules
    Saga Egmont

    ‘Facing the Flag’ is one of the stories that cemented Verne’s reputation as one of the pioneers of science-fiction. It centres around a brilliant scientist, Thomas Roch, who has in...

  4. The Mutineers of the Bounty by Jules Verne

    Verne, Jules
    Saga Egmont

    The Mutineers of the Bounty is a short story by Jules Verne, part of the series The Extraordinary Voyages. It is based on a true story: a mutiny that occured on the Royal Navy vess...

  5. César Cascabel

    Verne, Jules
    Saga Egmont

    What do you get if you cross a family of French acrobats with the escape of a Russian political prisoner? ‘César Cascabel!’ Despite the outlandish premise, Verne deftly weaves a st...

  6. Master of the World

    Verne, Jules
    Saga Egmont

    The sequel to ‘Robur the Conqueror,’ ‘The Master of the World’ is part of the Extraordinary Voyages series. Narrated by Chief Inspector John Strock, the story starts with strange p...

  7. Captain Antifer

    Verne, Jules
    Saga Egmont

    A 17th Century Indiana Jones, ‘Captain Antifer’ details the adventures of the eponymous captain as he strives to inherit the legacy of the wealthy Kamylk Pasha. Aided and abetted b...

  8. Mathias Sandorf

    Verne, Jules
    Saga Egmont

    An homage to Dumas’ ‘The Count of Monte Cristo,’ ‘Mathias Sandorf’ is an action-packed adventure story, complete with coded messages, secret identities, island adventure, and a mys...

  9. Claudius Bombarnac

    Verne, Jules
    Saga Egmont

    Claudius Bombarnac is a reporter, tasked with writing a travelogue while aboard the Great Trans-Asiatic Railway. Hoping to spice up his story, he befriends a group of travellers, w...

  10. The Adventures of Captain Hatteras

    Verne, Jules
    Saga Egmont

    Captain Hatteras has one goal remaining in life, to reach the North Pole at all costs. With a purpose built steamship he sets out on the greatest voyage of his life but when their...

  11. The Green Ray

    Verne, Jules
    Saga Egmont

    ‘The Green Ray’ is a story that exemplifies the age old saying ‘It’s about the journey, not the destination’. The Green Rays, are rare phenomena observable only in certain places o...

  12. Dick Sands, the Boy Captain

    Verne, Jules
    Saga Egmont

    Could you be Captain of a whaling ship if all the crew around you died in a tragedy? Would you even want to? And what would you do if the cook on board has plans of his own and wan...

  13. An Antarctic Mystery

    Verne, Jules
    Saga Egmont

    ‘An Antarctic Mystery’ is a follow up to Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym’, attempting to explain what might have happened to the main characters after the nov...

  14. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon

    Verne, Jules
    Saga Egmont

    ‘Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon’ follows Joam Garral a Brazilian ranch owner living on the Peruvian border. When his daughter wants to return to their old city of Belem for he...

  15. Robur the Conqueror

    Verne, Jules
    Saga Egmont

    Strange happenings are afoot. Flight enthusiasts discuss possibilities of mastering the skies using lighter-than-air craft. A great inventor claims the opposite that mankind can co...

  16. The Purchase of the North Pole

    Verne, Jules
    Saga Egmont

    The gun club of "From the Earth to the Moon" and "Around the Moon" returns after a long retirement. "The Purchase of the North Pole" brings back the three explorers who have come u...

  17. The Adventures of Captain Hatteras: The English at the North Pole

    Verne, Jules
    Saga Egmont

    Mutiny, shipwrecks, cold, hunger and even polar bears are a part of this exciting adventure. "The English at the North Pole" is the first part of Jules Verne’s novel "The Adventure...

  18. The Adventures of Captain Hatteras: The Desert of Ice

    Verne, Jules
    Saga Egmont

    Why would the Captain jump into a volcano crater? And will he make it back out alive? "The Desert of Ice" is the second part of Jules Verne’s novel "The Adventures of Captain Hatte...

  19. Off on a Comet

    Verne, Jules
    Saga Egmont

    Jules Verne’s ‘Off on a Comet’ is a science-fiction adventure first published in 1877. After a comet collides with planet earth, several inhabitants of earth are unknowingly carrie...

  20. A Voyage in a Balloon

    Verne, Jules
    Saga Egmont

    How do you handle a basket case at 7000 metres height? That is the question an accomplished and esteemed aeronaut is forced to ask himself in 1850 after his hot air balloon is hija...