As Radio 4 embarks on a journey To the Ends of the Earth with a set of Victorian adventure stories, we examine how the work of 19th-century French novelist Jules Verne feeds into the modern ...

When French author Jules Verne died in 1905, powered air flight, which he put at the center of his 1886 book Robur the Conqueror, had moved from fiction to reality. Just two years earlier ...

George Roux (1850–1929) was a French artist renowned for his illustrations of Jules Verne ... drawings that brought Verne’s fantastical worlds to life. Roux's illustrations played a crucial role in ...