📓 Jules Gabriel Verne 1828-1905) was a French Breton author who pioneered the science-fiction genre and is best known for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, Journey to the Center of the Earth, and Around the World in Eighty Days. This volume contains "A Trip to the Center of the Earth" -- a non-traditional translation of the title -- and one of the Adventures of Captain Hatteras -- The English at the North Pole.