Jules Verne ~8 hr read

Lieutenant Hobson leads a Hudson's Bay Company expedition to build a fort on the far Arctic shore, never suspecting the ground beneath the fort is not solid land at all.

Jules Verne's 1873 novel is a classic of polar adventure and geographic science fiction. Thrilling, atmospheric, meticulously imagined. Read it for vintage Verne, a fur-trading outpost that proves to be built on a drifting island of ice, carrying its unwitting colonists on a perilous voyage across the northern seas.

In its time

Published in 1873, during the 1870s, under the sea and around the moon.

Reading it

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