An American naturalist travels south beyond the remote Kerguelen Islands.

On a bet, an eccentric Victorian gentleman races to circumnavigate the globe.

Three men attempt to cross Africa by balloon.

Prompted by a mysterious Icelandic manuscript, a professor and his nephew, with the aid of a local guide, adventure to the center of the earth through the crater of a dormant volcano.

An engineer returns to a depleted coal mine at an old friend’s request and investigates mysterious happenings.

A group of colonists attempt to settle in the Arctic Circle.

An ex-slave trader with an encrypted note schemes about its meaning, while a man with a secret past travels with his family down the Amazon in a giant raft to attend his daughter’s wedding.

A Parisian news reporter is assigned to travel across Asia by train and report on the sights, experiences, and interesting characters along the way.

A record of the ill-fated voyage of the Chancellor as told by one of the passengers.