... added to its assets the Arabia, the Persia, the China, the Scotia, the Java, and the Russia, all ships of top speed and, after the Great Eastern, the biggest ever to plow the seas So in 1867 this ... amid a chorus of curses! However, the weather held good Our voyage was proceeding under the most favorable conditions By then it was the bad season in these southernmost regions, because July in ... who pioneered the science-fiction genre He is best known for novels such as Journey To The Center Of The Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty...