The Hunt for the Meteor Author:Jules Verne Gold's effect on the world economy and the question of new Earth satellites and who owns them make this Jules Vern novel seem as up-to-date as today's newspapers. But that was the way with Verne's prophetic mind- in the Hunt for the Meteor he demonstrated once again his vast and far-ranging imagination. — For this novel deals with the discovery o... more »f such new satellite, its claiming by scientists who found out how to manipulate objects in space, and the world-shaking discovery that meteoric object was composed of solid gold, enough to shatter Earth's monetary systems!
What follows is one of Verne's most intriguing adventures.« less