BEING THE EXPLOITS AND EXPERIENCES OF CLAUDIUS BOMBARNAC OF "THE TWENTIETH CENTURY" BY Jules Verne, French author, was born at Nantes, France, in 1828, and died in 1905. In 1850 he wrote a comedy in verse, but he eventually confined himself to the writing of scientific and geographical romances, achieving a great reputation. He visited the United States in 1867, sailing for New York on the _Great Eastern_, and his book, _A Floating City_, was the result of this voyage. His best-known books are: _A Captain at Fifteen, A Two Years' Vacation, A Voyage to the Center of the Earth_ (1864), _From the Earth to the Moon_ (1865), _20,000 Leagues Under the Sea_ (1870), _A Tour of the World in Eighty D…
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