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

The giant rocket Columbiad travels to the Moon, engaging in discoveries and misadventures along the way.

After the end of the Civil War, the Baltimore Gun Club decides to apply its engineering expertise to the design of a cannon capable of shooting a projectile to the Moon.

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

The North Pole is auctioned off, and the winning team undertakes a scientific experiment to ameliorate the local climate.

An American naturalist travels south beyond the remote Kerguelen Islands.

The residents of a small pre-industrial Ohio town lead their lives amidst a backdrop of pervasive loneliness.

The wife of a lost fisherman finds his last message to her: a lottery ticket in a bottle.

Three generations of an English family struggle to adapt in a society rapidly changed by industrialization.

Three men attempt to cross Africa by balloon.

The gentleman-thief recounts the tale of his first major caper.

Haunted by the part he played in a shipping disaster, young British seaman Jim escapes to an island in the South Seas to build his future.