সংক্ষিপ্ত বিবরন : Verne applied his bolder strokes of imagination and creation in this work. Verne's calculations were all so wisely planned that they reflect a picture so close to the truth. The audacious voyagers are represented as actually reaching the pole; and the incredible tales of what they saw and did, growing to the astonishing pinnacle of the volcano and the madman's climb, are led up to through such a detailed and convincing story, that many critics have dubbed it as Verne's best work. It should be noted that, with the exception of the open sea and the volcano, the world Verne depicted through imagination, matches meticulously with that which Peary has discovered to exist in reality like the desolate lands, the weary sledge rides, the settings of land and sea, the "red snow," etc.