Un viaje cruzando el Atlántico es buen material para un artículo tanto el mismo barco por su tamaño y su historia como las relaciones de sus pasajeros.

Interesante, entretenido y ameno. Esta bien, se lee ligero.

Love triangle on a transatlantic steamship. Feel like I've seen that somewhere before…

It was interesting to read about the life the passengers pass onboard a 19th century cruise ship. And The descriptions of Niagara falls; makes me wanna visit the place.

A Floating City is essentially a mystery aboard a cruise ship. Unfortunately, it's not a terribly interesting mystery. Verne is distracted by the engineering and foreshadowing. The companion short, "The Blockade Runners," is actually much better. Mysterious passengers board a ship on a desperate mission into the besieged city of Charlotte during the Civil War. Much better!

Jules Verne Ranked
1. Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas (1869–70) [VE #6] 5 Stars
2. The Adventures of Captain Hatteras (1866) [VE #2] 4 Stars
3. Around the World in 80 Days (1872) [VE #11] 4 Stars
4. From the Earth to the Moon (1865) [VE #4] 3.5 Stars
5. The Mysterious Island (1873) [VE #10] 3.5 Stars
6. The Fur Country (1873) [VE #10] 3 Stars
7. Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864, revised 1867) [VE #3] 3 Stars
8. In Search of the Castaways (1867–68) [VE #5] 2.5 Stars
9. Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863) [VE #1] 2.5 Stars
10.A Floating City (1871) [VE #8] 2 Stars
11. Round the Moon (1870) [VE #7] 2 Stars
12. Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa (1872) [VE #9] 1 Star

Omg Jules stop describing everything in details for god's sake ToT

meh. Protagonist was more of an observer of events, than participant. Nothing really happened. Just lots of descriptions of things. I did enjoy the Niagara Falls bit, but otherwise, it was a snooze fest filled with uninteresting characters, if any.

A Floating City
One of the most extraordinary voyages among the least known, a floating city, is a short but fascinating novel. Jules Verne, through his narrator, takes us on board the Great Eastern for a trip from Liverpool to New York. Onboard, we find a concentrate on the society of the time. We live all the possible intrigues in this behind-the-scenes, sometimes a little disturbing, so many legends about it abound drownings, disappearances, and workers walled in machinery. .. But, more than a simple hymn to progress, this novel is a photograph of the society of the end of the XIXth Century, and the intrigues in the sides of this "floating city" are full of interest.

The Blockade Runners
It's been a long time since I read Jules Verne, so these little novels allowed me to fix that. That said, it may not be the most appropriate format: the characters are not the most vital point of this author, and they do not have the time to develop on a path. As short as that who leads this English vessel to break the blockade of the American Civil War to bring back cotton. It's pretty cool, but it lacks pages to train the reader like Verne knows how to do in other works. For lovers of maritime conflicts, therefore, rather.