A Winter amid the Ice and other Thrilling Stories
A Winter amid the Ice and other Thrilling Stories is a collection of five short stories of varying lengths written by Jules Verne around 1855. They are very much like B-sides to Verne's better-known hits.
This book includes the following short stories:
- DOCTOR OX’S EXPERIMENT
- MASTER ZACHARIUS
- A DRAMA IN THE AIR
- A WINTER AMID THE ICE
- ASCENT OF MONT BLANC
The book is illustrated and it contains sixty original illustrations.
This edition is based on: THE WORLD PUBLISHING HOUSE 21 ASTOR PLACE AND 142 EIGHTH ST. 1877
"If you try to find, on any map of Flanders, ancient or modern, the small town of Quiquendone, probably you will not succeed. Is Quiquendone, then, one of those towns which have disappeared? No. A town of the future? By no means...."
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- Pages
- 282
- Reading time
- 5 hours 40 minutes
- Pace
- Intermediate
- First published
- 1877
- Language
- French
- Downloads
- 3,140
149 years later, still timely
Why Read A Winter amid the Ice in 2026?
Verne turns cold into a character and survival into engineering. These lean adventures celebrate improvisation, teamwork, and the quiet confidence of practical knowledge.
Today's connection
From field science to back-country travel, resilience still depends on preparation and shared skill. Verne models curiosity that measures twice and cuts once.
STEM in the wild
Observation, hypothesis, survival.
Navigation as story
Terrain shapes tactics.
Practical courage
Calm plans beat bravado.
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About the author
Jules Verne
Plausible wonder, precise tech, and global horizons that make exploration feel shared and practical.
