Jules Verne 3 hr 34 min read

Three English and three Russian scientists set out across southern Africa to measure an arc of the meridian, and find their scientific expedition tangled in war between their nations.

Jules Verne's 1872 novel is a science-adventure of surveying, exploration, and geopolitics in the African wilds. Rousing, instructive, of its era. Read it for a classic Verne blend of real science and thrilling peril, as savants press their measurements onward through danger and discord.

In its time

Published in 1872, during the 1870s, under the sea and around the moon.

Reading it

3 hr 34 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).