He said he was indebted to Jules Verne, in particular Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas (1869-1870), which he first read at the age of 10 or 11. This book features the Nautilus ...

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’s most famous novels ...

George Roux (1850–1929) was a French artist renowned for his illustrations of Jules Verne’s science-fiction novels. Born in Paris, he studied at the École des Beaux-Arts and became famous for his ...