Extraordinary Voyages

Meridiana: The Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians

by Jules Verne

British and Russian astronomers measure an arc of meridian in southern Africa while their nations go to war in Europe. Verne turns surveying, a patient business, into an adventure.

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Project Gutenberg, eBook #63650. In the public domain in the United States.