Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras: Science Fiction Stories
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CHAPTER I.
THE FORWARD.
CHAPTER II.
AN UNEXPECTED LETTER.
CHAPTER III.
DR. CLAWBONNY.
CHAPTER IV.
THE DOG-CAPTAIN.
CHAPTER V.
AT SEA.
CHAPTER VI.
THE GREAT POLAR CURRENT.
CHAPTER VII.
THE ENTRANCE OF DAVIS STRAIT.
CHAPTER VIII.
THE TALK OF THE CREW.
CHAPTER IX.
ANOTHER LETTER.
CHAPTER X.
DANGEROUS SAILING.
CHAPTER XI.
THE DEVIL'S THUMB.
CHAPTER XII.
CAPTAIN HATTERAS.
CHAPTER XIII.
THE CAPTAIN'S PLANS.
CHAPTER XIV.
THE EXPEDITIONS IN SEARCH OF FRANKLIN.
CHAPTER XV.
THE FORWARD DRIVEN SOUTHWARD.
CHAPTER XVI.
THE MAGNETIC POLE.
CHAPTER XVII.
THE FATE OF SIR JOHN FRANKLIN.
CHAPTER XVIII.
THE WAY NORTHWARD.
CHAPTER XIX.
A WHALE IN SIGHT.
CHAPTER XX.
BEECHEY ISLAND.
CHAPTER XXI.
THE DEATH OF BELLOT.
CHAPTER XXII.
THE FIRST SIGNS OF MUTINY.
CHAPTER XXIII.
ATTACKED BY THE ICE.
CHAPTER XXIV.
PREPARATIONS FOR WINTERING.
CHAPTER XXV.
ONE OF JAMES ROSS'S FOXES.
CHAPTER XXVI.
THE LAST PIECE OF COAL.
CHAPTER XXVII.
THE GREAT COLD AT CHRISTMAS.
CHAPTER XXVIII.
PREPARATIONS FOR DEPARTURE.
CHAPTER XXIX.
ACROSS THE ICE-FIELDS.
CHAPTER XXX.
THE CAIRN.
CHAPTER XXXI.
THE DEATH OF SIMPSON.
CHAPTER XXXII.
THE RETURN TO THE FORWARD.
PART II.
THE DESERT OF ICE.
THE DESERT OF ICE.
CHAPTER I.
THE DOCTOR'S INVENTORY.
CHAPTER II.
ALTAMONT'S FIRST WORDS.
CHAPTER III.
SEVENTEEN DAYS OF LAND JOURNEY.
CHAPTER IV.
THE LAST CHARGE OF POWDER.
CHAPTER V.
THE SEAL AND THE BEAR.
CHAPTER VI.
THE PORPOISE.
CHAPTER VII.
A DISCUSSION ABOUT CHARTS.
CHAPTER VIII.
EXCURSION TO THE NORTH OF VICTORIA BAY.
CHAPTER IX.
COLD AND HEAT.
CHAPTER X.
THE PLEASURES OF WINTER-QUARTERS.
CHAPTER XI.
DISQUIETING TRACES.
CHAPTER XII.
THE ICE PRISON.
CHAPTER XIII.
THE MINE.
CHAPTER XIV.
THE POLAR SPRING.
CHAPTER XV.
THE NORTHWEST PASSAGE.
CHAPTER XVI.
NORTHERN ARCADIA.
CHAPTER XVII.
ALTAMONT'S REVENGE.
CHAPTER XVIII.
THE LAST PREPARATIONS.
CHAPTER XIX.
THE JOURNEY NORTHWARD.
CHAPTER XX.
FOOTPRINTS ON THE SNOW.
CHAPTER XXI.
THE OPEN SEA.
CHAPTER XXII.
THE APPROACH TO THE POLE.
CHAPTER XXIII.
THE ENGLISH FLAG.
CHAPTER XXIV.
POLAR COSMOGRAPHY.
CHAPTER XXV.
MOUNT HATTERAS.
CHAPTER XXVI.
RETURN TO THE SOUTH.
CHAPTER XXVII.
Ratings and reviews
About the author
Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction.
Verne was born to bourgeois parents in the seaport of Nantes, where he was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages Extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, and Around the World in Eighty Days.
Verne is generally considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. His reputation is markedly different in Anglophone regions, where he has often been labeled a writer of genre fiction or children's books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered translations in which his novels are often reprinted.
Verne is the second most-translated author in the world since 1979, ranking between the English-language writers Agatha Christie and William Shakespeare; he probably was the most-translated during the 1960s and 1970s. In English he is one so-called father of science fiction, a title also given to H. G. Wells and Hugo Gernsback.
Jules Verne appeared in Transformers: Rescue Bots series in the episode "Last of Morocco", where he is revealed to be the estranged friend of recurring series antagonist Thaddeus Morocco. He is also a time traveler, having discovered a means of moving through the ages using a device of his own invention and Energon, the power source of all Transformers. After being contacted by his old friend, Jules Verne travels to the present day and meets the Rescue Bots, and reveals that he has encountered other Transformers during his travels through time. At the time that he meets the series' heroes, he has not yet written 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea, but later becomes determined to do so after taking a trip in a submarine. In a paradox, Morocco has a submarine called the Nemo that he presumably named for Jules Verne's character, whom Verne presumably named after the adventure involving the submarine. As a result of the episode's events, Verne takes Morocco-whose memories have been erased so that he no longer remembers his villainous career-to the future to live.
