Michael Strogoff

Complete and unabridged, with 20 full-page plates by January Suchodolski, Alexander von Kotzebue and Nikolai Dmitriev-Orenburgsky. The tsar's courier carries a message to Irkutsk through a Tartar rising, with a false brother on the road, a journalist on each flank, and the certainty that if he is recognised he will not arrive. Verne's publisher Hetzel had the manuscript read by Turgenev, so that n...