The Purchase of the North Pole

Jules Verne in The Earth Turned Upside Down (also called The Purchase of the North Pole and Topsy-Turvy) returns to the Baltimore Gun Club (From the Earth to the Moon and Around the Moon), which now proposes something even more outrageous than a cannon projectile aimed at the moon: This time, the irrepressible Impey Barbicane and J-T Matson plan to change the north pole by permanently changing the rotation of the earth by some 27 degrees so that the North Pole ice could melt, and the Baltimore Gun Club could own the rights to all the coal and iron they would mine.