The Extraordinary Adventures of a Russian Scientist Across the Solar System ( Vol. 1 )

( French - Les Aventures Extraordinaires d'un Savant Russe - 1888-96 )

novel by Georges Le Faure & Henri de Graffigny

translated by Brian Stableford

Published: Black Coat Press - trade paperback - 2009 ( French Science Fiction no. 27 )
ISBN: 1934543810 / 9781934543818

Black Coat Press ( Barnes & Noble ) - Nook
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Black Coat Press ( Amazon ) - Kindle - 2011
ASIN: B006HRMXNM


synopsis
The amazing Professor Mikhail Ossipoff of the Scientific Institute of St. Petersburg launches a spaceship from a canon built inside a volcano. The crew, consisting of Ossipoff, his daughter Selena, her fiancé Gontran de Flammermont, French polymath Alcide Fricoulet and American tycoon Jonathan Farenheit, travel to the Moon where they encounter an amazing ancient civilization.
When Selena is taken prisoner by the evil Fedor Sharp, who has stolen Ossipoff's secrets and reached the Moon before they did, the heroes pursue him in a jet-propelled craft to Venus, then in a solar-powered ship to Mercury. After many adventures on the Inner Planets, they embark on a comet and reach Mars, where new dangers threaten...

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