Georges Le Faure & H. de Graffigny ~8 hr read

The astronomical odyssey sweeps on to the giant planets and the comets, volume three of the grand French space epic.

This third volume of Le Faure and de Graffigny's 1889 'Extraordinary Adventures of a Russian Scientist' journeys among Jupiter, Saturn, and the comets, in a richly illustrated interplanetary romance grounded in real 19th-century astronomy. Read it for the continuing grand tour of the solar system in the magnificent Verne tradition.

In its time

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

Reading it

~8 hr read (a novel-length work, settle in).

Illustrated by

J. Cayron