In the 1880s, the French geographer François Élie Rodier sought to flood part of the Sahara Desert with Mediterranean water by digging a canal from the Gulf of Gabes to a series of salt lakes in North Africa. His aim was to alter the region’s landscape and create a local climate suitable for agriculture. The idea was abandoned due to technical difficulties, but it inspired Jules Verne to write The Conquest of the Sea, one of his lesser-known works in his visionary Anthropocene series, which focuses on the catastrophes caused by humanity’s excessive interference with nature.
| Publisher | Alianza Editorial |
| Author | Jules Verne |
| Country | Spain |
| Publication Date | 10/04/2025 |
| Pages | 232 |
| Edition | first |
| Size | 14.53 x 2.34 x 21.67 cm |
| About the Author | With his fertile imagination, Jules Verne (1828–1905) created worlds and inventions in his adventure novels that remain firmly etched in the minds of modern readers. The novel "The Fortress of the Carpathians" (1892), published five years before "Dracula," rivaled his most famous works, such as "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea," "Journey to the Center of the Earth," "The Mysterious Island," "From the Earth to the Moon," and "Around the World in Eighty Days," all published by Allianz Publishing House. |
| Publisher Address | alianzaeditorial@anaya.es |
| ISBN | 978-84-1148-993-5 |
