Jules Verne 2 hr 37 min read

The Gun Club of Baltimore, having fired a shell at the Moon, now buys the North Pole at auction, and plans to tilt the Earth's axis with a monstrous cannon to reach the coal beneath the polar ice.

Jules Verne's 1889 novel, a sequel to 'From the Earth to the Moon,' is a witty scientific-adventure satire. Inventive, prophetic, funny. Read it for the return of Barbicane and the Gun Club in one of Verne's most audacious schemes, nothing less than shifting the planet on its axis, with world-shaking consequences.

In its time

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

Reading it

2 hr 37 min read (a novel-length work, settle in).