The Demon of Cawnpore

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British India, 1867. It's been ten years since the Sepoy Mutiny, and Nana Sahib, its prime mover, is still at large. A bounty of two thousand pounds hangs on his head. Colonel Munro, who lost his wife in the massacre, has been spending his days quietly plotting revenge. When a close friend reveals he has devised a most unusual vehicle a house on wheels pulled by a steam powered elephant the colonel climbs aboard to journey through the badlands of India, in hot pursuit of his deadly nemesis. Published in 1880 as part of the Voyages Extraordinaires, The Demon of Cawnpore is a thrilling story of adventure and vengeance from one of the greatest pioneers of science fiction.

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Pioneering science-fiction writer Jules Gabriel Verne was born in the French port city of Nantes in 1828. Verne published Five Weeks in a Balloon in 1863, an immediate hit, followed by numerous other novels, including his two most influential books, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in Eighty Days. The Demon of Cawnpore, set in India in the aftermath of the Revolt of 1857, is being published for the first time in the country of its setting. Verne, who died of old age and illness in 1905, has come to be hailed as the Father of Science Fiction and continues to be read widely the world over.