Georges Le Faure & H. de Graffigny ~10 hr read

The grand astronomical voyage continues to the Sun and the minor planets, volume two of the Flammarion-blessed French space epic.

This second volume of Le Faure and de Graffigny's 1889 'Extraordinary Adventures of a Russian Scientist' carries its travelers sunward and among the asteroids, in a lavishly illustrated interplanetary romance built on the real astronomy of its day. Read it for more of a magnificent Verne-tradition space adventure, science and spectacle intertwined.

In its time

Published in 1889, during the 1880s, lost races and dying earths.

Reading it

~10 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

J. Cayron