When Ivan Ogareff allies himself with the fierce and ambitious Foefar-Khan in an attempt to wrest the Siberian provinces away from Russia, Michael Strogoff, one of the Czar's couriers, is assigned the difficult mission of stopping the invasion. Jules Verne (1828-1905) was born in France. Around the World in Eighty Days has long been his most popular novel. Verne is credited with creating the genre of science fiction with such other works as Journey to the Center of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea . N. C. Wyeth (1882-1945) began his artistic career as a young adult. Born in Needham, Massachusetts, Wyeth traveled the American West extensively and drew what he saw. His prolific career includes three thousand works and more than one hundred book illustrations, including those for a majority of the Scribner Illustrated Classics series. Used Book in Good Condition