Verne is sometimes credited as being a guy ahead of his time, a man who could envision the future, and affect the shape that future took. Verne wrote so many novels in which travel was key that his series of books are called, as a group, Voyages Extraordinaires. From the Earth to the Moon the very strange Off on a Comet, in which some 40 people of different nationalities find themselves tooling around the solar system on a comet for 2 years, and the book I read this time around, A Journey to the Center of the Earth.
He wrote several works that dealt with travel in some way: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea about Captain Nemo and his submarine Five Weeks in a Balloon Around the World in 80 Days, in which the hero Phileas Fogg travels by means of every type of vehicle available in the 19th c. If there is a single author who rightly deserves to be considered the king of travel fiction, it’s Jules Verne.
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