Strange trumpet blasts sound over the cities of the world, and a flag appears on the spires of great cathedrals. Then an engineer named Robur bursts into a Philadelphia balloon club, mocks its members, and carries off its quarrelsome president and secretary aboard the Albatross, a heavier-than-air machine that crosses America, Asia and Africa while they plot their escape.
Verne’s 1886 argument that the future of flight belonged to machines rather than balloons, written decades before the Wright brothers. Download the free EPUB.