Download or read book Michael Stogoff written by Jules Verne and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-01-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This double book is one of Jules Verne's more dramatic--and rated as one of his better works--the main character is sent on a courier run by the Czar across Russia. Along the way Strogoff meets Nadia Fedor--daughter of an exiled political prisoner, who has been granted permission to join her father in Irkutsk--an English war correspondent Harry Blount of the Daily Telegraph and Alcide Jolivet, a Frenchman reporting for his 'cousin Madeleine'. Blount and Jolivet tend to follow the same route as Michael, separating and meeting again all the way through Siberia. He is supposed to travel under a false identity, but he is discovered by the Tartars when he meets his mother in their home city of Omsk.Michael, his mother and Nadia are eventually taken prisoner by the Tartar forces. Ivan Ogareff alleges that Michael is a spy. After opening the Koran at random, Feofar decides that Michael will be blinded as punishment in the Tartar fashion, with a hot blade.Eventually, Michael and Nadia... well, read the story!