The Purchase of the North Pole

Jules Verne’s adventure novel “The Earthquake Turnaround,” also published under the title “Upturn Down” and released in 1889. This is the third and final novel about the Baltimore Gun Club, known from the books “From the Earth to the Moon” and “Around the Moon,” with the same characters—but the events take place twenty years later.

In “From the Earth to the Moon,” the idea was proposed that if Earth’s axis of rotation were straightened so that it was perpendicular to the ecliptic plane, things would go wonderfully—and the heroes take up the challenge.

It is assumed that the planned operation will be carried out by means of a powerful cannon shot at a location kept secret almost throughout the entire book.