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Jules Verne. The Purchase of the North Pole
The Purchase of the North Pole
Table of Contents
CHAPTER I. THE NORTH POLAR PRACTICAL ASSOCIATION
CHAPTER II. TO SYNDICATE OR NOT TO SYNDICATE
CHAPTER III. THE NORTH POLE IS KNOCKED DOWN TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER
CHAPTER IV. OLD ACQUAINTANCES
CHAPTER V. THE POLAR COAL-FIELD
CHAPTER VI. A TELEPHONIC CONVERSATION
CHAPTER VII. BARBICANE MAKES A SPEECH
CHAPTER VIII. LIKE JUPITER
CHAPTER IX. SULPHURIC ALCIDE
CHAPTER X. A CHANGE IN PUBLIC OPINION
CHAPTER XI. THE CONTENTS OF THE NOTE-BOOK
CHAPTER XII. HEROIC SILENCE
CHAPTER XIII. A TRULY EPIC REPLY
CHAPTER XIV. THE GEOGRAPHICAL VALUE OF x
CHAPTER XV. INTERESTING FOR THE INHABITANTS OF THE TERRESTRIAL SPHEROID
CHAPTER XVI. THE CHORUS OF TERROR
CHAPTER XVII. THE WORKS AT KILIMANJARO
CHAPTER XVIII. THE WAMASAI WAIT FOR THE WORD TO FIRE
CHAPTER XIX. J. T. MASTON REGRETS HE WAS NOT LYNCHED
CHAPTER XX. THE END OF THIS REMARKABLE STORY
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Jules Verne
A sequel to "From the earth to the moon"
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“A company has been formed at Baltimore, under the title of the North Polar Practical Association, which proposes to acquire the region by purchase, and thus obtain an indefeasible title to all the continents, islands, islets, rocks, seas, lakes, rivers, and watercourses whatsoever of which this Arctic territory is composed, although these may be now covered with ice, which ice may in summertime disappear.
“It is understood that this right will be perpetual and indefeasible, even in the event of modification—in any way whatsoever—of the geographical or meteorological conditions of the globe.
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