Jules Verne (1828-1905) was an acclaimed French author. His works include Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). He is considered one of the pioneers of the genre of science fiction.
The End of Nana Sahib is the story of a group of British colonialists travelling through nineteenth century India in a house on wheels, drawn by a steam engine in the shape of an elephant. Recounting their adventures during the aftermath of the Indian mutiny in 1857, it also explores the disappearance of Nana Sahib, the ruler of Kanpur and one of the mutiny's most famed leaders.
