Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea of the premiere adventure novels and one of Verne's greatest works, along with "Around the World in Eighty Days" and "Journey to the Center of the Earth". The description of Nemo's ship, the "Nautilus", was considered ahead of its time, as it accurately describes features on submarines, which at the time were very primitive vessels. A model of the French submarine "Plongeur" (launched in 1863) was displayed at the 1867 Exposition Universelle, where it was studied by Jules Verne, who used it as an inspiration for the novel. The title refers to the "distance traveled" while under the sea and
The Chase of the Golden Meteor Meteor". In 1986 the Société Jules Verne published the original French version. In 1998 Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press, republished "The Chase of the Golden Meteor" in a fully illustrated replica version of the Grant Richards version with an introduction by Gregory A. Benford. In 2006 The Meteor Hunt was published by Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press translated by F. P. Walter and Walter James Miller from the original text by Jules Verne. The Chase of the Golden Meteor The Chase of the Golden Meteor () is a novel by Jules Verne. It was one of the last