Wendy Moore

Introduction Jules Verne is often regarded as the father of science fiction. His most popular works, originally written in French, have been translated into many languages and read and enjoyed all over the world. Verne was born in 1828 in Nantes, a port on the French Atlantic coast. He went to...

Profile of Sydney From a height of some 8 kilometres (5 miles), the passengers aboard a jumbo jet flying through a cloudless ultramarine sky look down over a vast striated plain, the ochre-coloured landscape that comprises the greater part of Australia. Hours later, the first road, like a line...