The Jules Verne Collection (Boxed Set): Journey to the Center of the Earth; Arou

<b>Set off on unbelievable adventures with eight of Jules Verne's most popular adventure and science fiction novels in this seven-volume hardcover collectible boxed set--now with an arresting new look!</b> <p/>When Professor Lidenbrock, in <i>Journey to the Center of the Earth</i>, finds a coded journal describing a path into the center of the Earth, it's his nephew, Axel, who cracks the code, and the two head to Iceland to locate the hidden route. <p/><i>From the</i> <i>Earth to the Moon </i>and its sequel, <i>Around the Moon</i>, combined here in one volume, have members of a post-American Civil War gun club set an extreme challenge to build a gun large enough to shoot a man to the moon. The engineering challenge undertaken in part one culminates in three voyagers' expedition to the moon and back in part two. <p/>A message in a bottle launches a rescue expedition for a shipwreck to many possible countries on the thirty-seventh parallel south where the stranded captain could be in <i>In Search of the Castaways</i>. <p/>When word about sightings of a sea monster spread in <i>Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea</i>, three men embark on a journey to find the creature. But they soon find themselves in the belly of the beast--an underwater vessel named the <i>Nautilus</i> manned by Captain Nemo. The trio then encounters giant sea creatures, sunken treasure, and even the lost world of Atlantis. <p/>In <i>Around the World in 80 Days</i>, Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune in a bet