Length4h 14m
About this audiobook
The Purchase of the North Pole 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.
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GenreGeneral Fiction, Literary Classics
Length4 hrs 14 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateOct 13, 2022
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1CHAPTER I. THE NORTH POLAR PRACTICAL ASSOCIATION.
2CHAPTER II. TO SYNDICATE OR NOT TO SYNDICATE.
3CHAPTER III. THE NORTH POLE IS KNOCKED DOWN TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER.
4CHAPTER IV. OLD ACQUAINTANCES.
5CHAPTER V. THE POLAR COAL-FIELD.
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6CHAPTER VI. A TELEPHONIC CONVERSATION.
7CHAPTER VII. BARBICANE MAKES A SPEECH.
8CHAPTER VIII. LIKE JUPITER.
9CHAPTER IX. SULPHURIC ALCIDE.
10CHAPTER X. A CHANGE IN PUBLIC OPINION.
11CHAPTER XI. THE CONTENTS OF THE NOTE-BOOK.
12CHAPTER XII. HEROIC SILENCE.
13CHAPTER XIII. A TRULY EPIC REPLY.
14CHAPTER XIV. THE GEOGRAPHICAL VALUE OF x.
15CHAPTER XV. INTERESTING FOR THE INHABITANTS OF THE TERRESTRIAL SPHEROID.
16CHAPTER XVI. THE CHORUS OF TERROR.
17CHAPTER XVII. THE WORKS AT KILIMANJARO.
18CHAPTER XVIII. THE WAMASAI WAIT FOR THE WORD TO FIRE.
19CHAPTER XIX. J. T. MASTON REGRETS HE WAS NOT LYNCHED.
20CHAPTER XX. THE END OF THIS REMARKABLE STORY.
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