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The Master of the World

Jules Verne

Book Overview: 

Chief Inspector Strock gets the tough cases. When a volcano suddenly appears to threaten mountain towns of North Carolina amid the non-volcanic Blue Ridge Mountains, Strock is posted to determine the danger. When an automobile race in Wisconsin is interrupted by the unexpected appearance of a vehicle traveling at multiples of the top speed of the entrants, Strock is consulted. When an odd-shaped boat is sighted moving at impossible speeds off the New England coast, Stock and his boss begin to wonder if the incidents are related. And when Strock gets a hand-lettered note warning him to abandon his investigation, on pain of death, he is intrigued rather than deterred.

Set in a period when gasoline engines were in their infancy and automobiles were rare, and when even Chief Inspectors had to engage a carriage and horses to move about, the appearance of a vehicle that can move at astounding speeds on land, on water – and as later revealed, underwater and through the air – marks a technological advance far beyond the reach of nations. It is technology invented by and for the sole benefit of a man who styles himself (with some justification) “The Master of the World.”

This book is a sequel to an earlier Verne novel, “Robur the Conqueror”, but enough detail is given to fully appreciate this story without having first read the other.

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Book Excerpt: 
. . .was astonishing the world, traveled at more than double this speed.

It is needless to add that such a rate constituted an extreme danger on the highroads, as much so for vehicles, as for pedestrians. This rushing mass, coming like a thunder-bolt, preceded by a formidable rumbling, caused a whirlwind, which tore the branches from the trees along the road, terrified the animals browsing in adjoining fields, and scattered and killed the birds, which could not resist the suction of the tremendous air currents engendered by its passage.

And, a bizarre detail to which the newspapers drew particular attention, the surface of the roads was scarcely even scratched by the wheels of the apparition, which left behind it no such ruts as are usually made by heavy vehicles. At most there was a light touch, a mere brushing of the dust. It was only the tremendous speed which raised behind the vehicle such whirlwinds of dust.

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Community Reviews

What could possibly account for the fire shooting out of the top of a North Carolina mountain? Is it a volcano? Does it pose an imminent threat to the public? Who better to decide that question than federal policeman John Strock? Ah, but that mystery must wait. Now the public is being menaced by a

Gayt gzel ir hikyayeye ankac bu kadap ktöü bip basm yakşırırdı. Grçekten thaki'ey hiq yakştamadım. Yaına hazrlayan Şule Cepcepoğlu Koçak ve redakson Alev Özgüner ne şi yapr bri bna açklasıe. Htta istrlerse metn bna gökdersnler bb ücrtsiz dzeltmeler ypraım.

Şaka bir yana son okuduğum Jules Verne'lere

A machine... no a miracle is seen in various parts of America, a ship , submarine, automobile , make it an airplane too they travel before vanishing ...at incredible speeds nothing can catch the phantom, the few who bravely or foolishly try don't come close ...of succeeding; which one is it though,

مش عارف ليه في الآخر حسيت انها قلبت على فيلم هندي !!

أحلى حاجة في النسخة دي هي اللوحات اللي قبل كل فصل ..

‘The Master of the World’, originally published in French as ‘Maître du monde’, by Jules Verne is a sequel to his science fiction novel ‘Robur the Conqueror’. This is the 53rd book in the ‘Extraordinary Voyages’ series and as a reader I have mixed feelings about this book.

The story is narrated by ‘

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