A Floating City
by Jules Verne
The floating city enjoyed popularity almost equal to that of the world for eighty days. This was a direct result of the author's journey to America in 1867, aboard the largest iron ship ever built. It gives us a real picture of the natural and ordinary phenomena of ocean travel of those days, portrays them, brings romance on board. The pictures of the "Great East" are, of course, exaggerated as much as not in the words themselves, but in the impressions they convey. But the paintings of New York and Niagara are a real mark on the great writer with his visit.
