Jules Verne 4 hr 17 min read

The brig Forward sails north under a mysterious unnamed captain and a strange dog-captain, bound on a secret voyage toward the Pole that its uneasy crew can only guess at.

Jules Verne's 1866 novel, first part of 'The Adventures of Captain Hatteras,' is a classic of polar adventure. Thrilling, atmospheric, meticulously imagined. Read it for vintage Verne, an obsessive captain's drive to plant the English flag at the North Pole, amid ice, mutiny, and the terrors of the frozen sea.

In its time

Published in 1866, during the 1860s, verne launches the voyages extraordinaires.

Reading it

4 hr 17 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).