Writing in France in the nineteenth century, Jules Verne expressed the universal fascination with adventure and exploration. Collecting “Five Weeks in a Balloon,” “Around the World in Eighty Days,” “A Journey to the Center of the Earth,” “From the Earth to the Moon,” “Round the Moon,” “Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea,” and “The Mysterious Island,” this omnibus offers a unique compilation of seven of Verne’s Voyages extraordinaires, stories in which he extrapolated developing technology and invention into marvelous fiction.