Extraordinary Voyages

Topsy-Turvy

by Jules Verne

The Gun Club returns with a plan to straighten the Earth’s axis with a vast cannon, so as to mine coal beneath the Arctic ice, never mind the floods. A satire of speculation, with the engineering, as ever, alarmingly careful.

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Project Gutenberg, eBook #10547. In the public domain in the United States.