The A sequel to "From the earth to the moon" Verne, Jules 1828-1905 creator text utu 2019 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "The Purchase of the North Pole" by Jules Verne is an adventure novel published in 1889. The Baltimore Gun Club returns with an audacious scheme: buy the Arctic and use a massive cannon's recoil to tilt Earth's axis, ending seasons forever and exposing valuable coal deposits beneath the ice. As their plan threatens to flood entire nations, the world races to stop them. But a single mathematical error may doom—or save—everything. A satirical tale about scientific ambition and human fallibility. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Purchase_of_the_North_Pole Release date is 2019-09-05 Produced by Richard Tonsing and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from images made available by the HathiTrust Digital Library.) Original publication data not identified Science fiction, French -- Translations into English PQ Original publication data not identified https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60242 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/60242 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134404.0 60242