Off on a Comet

A unique edition with 100 original illustrations by Paul Philippoteaux.
Off on a Comet was first published in France under the original title, Hector Servadac. Later publications changed the name to Off on a Comet. It is an 1877 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story starts with a comet called Gallia, that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. The disaster occurs on January 1 around Gibraltar. On the territory that is carried away by the comet there remain a total of thirty-six people of French, English, Spanish and Russian nationality. These people do not realize at first what has happened, and consider the collision an earthquake. During a new collision of the comet with Earth two years later, the castaways return to earth in a balloon they put together.