The Complete Jules Vern for Nook
Posted: Fri May 11, 2012 12:27 am
Picked this up for $3 a few weeks ago. Nearly 5000 pages of everything Vern published. I had read 20,000 Leagues Under the Seas and Journey to the Center of the Earth when I was in grade school, but this is the first time I've gotten deep into his work as an adult.
It's amazing how forward thinking he was on certain aspects of science, and how far off on basic earth science the cutting edge of the late 1800's turned out to be. I think what strikes me most about his writing is that the majority of it is nearly a travelogue in it's attention to detail of foreign travels. When he takes great measures to describe the trip across India and the American west in Around the World in 80 Days, you realize that the vast majority of people of the time had never been more than a few miles from their own homes. India, China, and the American west may as well have been Mars to most of his readers.
If your a science fiction fan at all and haven't read much Vern, this is highly recommended. I'm going to chew through the entire thing over the summer.
It's amazing how forward thinking he was on certain aspects of science, and how far off on basic earth science the cutting edge of the late 1800's turned out to be. I think what strikes me most about his writing is that the majority of it is nearly a travelogue in it's attention to detail of foreign travels. When he takes great measures to describe the trip across India and the American west in Around the World in 80 Days, you realize that the vast majority of people of the time had never been more than a few miles from their own homes. India, China, and the American west may as well have been Mars to most of his readers.
If your a science fiction fan at all and haven't read much Vern, this is highly recommended. I'm going to chew through the entire thing over the summer.