THE DEMON OF CAWNPORE

THE DEMON OF CAWNPORE JULES VERNE

British India, 1867. It’s been ten years since the Sepoy Mutiny, and Nana Sahib, its prime mover, is still at large. A bounty of two thousand pounds hangs on his head. Colonel Munro, who lost his wife in the massacre, has been spending his days quietly plotting revenge. When a close friend reveals he has devised a most unusual vehicle – a house on wheels pulled by a steam-powered elephant – the colonel climbs aboard to journey through the badlands of India, in hot pursuit of his deadly nemesis. Published in 1880 as part of the Voyages Extraordinaires, The Demon of Cawnpore is a thrilling story of adventure and vengeance from one of the greatest pioneers of science fiction.

JULES VERNE

Pioneering science-fiction writer Jules Gabriel Verne was born in the French port city of Nantes on 8 February, 1828, to Pierre Verne, a successful lawyer, and his wife Sophie. Verne published Five Weeks in a Balloon in 1863, an immediate hit which was followed by Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), and his two most inspiring books, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1869) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1872). Verne died of old age and illness on March 24, 1905.