Topsy-Turvy
No CoverBaltimore Gun Club members win Arctic rights and fire a giant cannon to straighten Earth's axis, ending seasons to access polar coal.
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Baltimore Gun Club members win Arctic rights and fire a giant cannon to straighten Earth's axis, ending seasons to access polar coal.
The Purchase of the North Pole or Topsy-Turvy is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1889. It is the third and last novel of the Baltimore Gun Club, first appearing in From the Earth to the Moon, and later in Around the Moon, featuring the same characters but set twenty years later. Like some other books of his later years, in this novel Verne tempers his love of science and engineering with a good dose of irony about their potential for harmful abuse and the fallibility of human end...
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International auction for Arctic sovereignty and resource claims
No self-harm or suicide depicted
No abuse or suffering depicted
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