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Millions have been enthralled by Jule's Verne's story of the Gun Club and their shot to the moon. Here is a sequel to this world-famous novel - another exploit of the space-conquerors even more fantastic in scope. THE PURCHASE OF THE NORTH POLE is the account of a super-scientific exploit designed to change the face of the world itself, melt the poles, cool the tropics, and make Earth a terrestrial heaven. Ace Books presents the first new edition in many decades of this rare Verne novel - an exciting classic science-fiction adventure in space engineering.
Author
Novels of French writer Jules Gabriel Verne, considered the founder of modern science fiction, include Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules\_V...
