From its initial title to its real life inspirations to its disastrous, misconception-causing English translations.

1. HE GREW UP SURROUNDED BY SHIPS. On February 8, 1828, Pierre and Sophie Verne welcomed their first child, Jules Gabriel, at Sophie's mother's home in Nantes, a city in western France.

When French author Jules Verne died in 1905, powered air flight, which he put at the center of his 1886 book "Robur the Conqueror," had moved from fiction to reality. Just two years earlier, the ...

David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Novelist Jules Verne was born on February 8, 1828, in the French city of Nantes. Today he is known as a pioneer of the science ...

As Radio 4 embarks on a journey To the Ends of the Earth with a set of Victorian adventure stories, we examine how the work of 19th-century French novelist Jules Verne feeds into the modern ...

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Famed 19th-century author Jules Verne — who penned futuristic tales about science-minded explorers navigating the furthest reaches of the planet, beyond the limits of human understanding ...

The tale includes Jules Verne, a rocket launch, a streetcar war, socialites and the clandestine bombing of a dam. The following is based on Tampa news archives. It began in 1890 with the arrival ...

April 11 (UPI) --AMC is teasing Nautilus, a new series based on the Jules Verne novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. The epic adventure drama provides an origin story for Captain Nemo ...