Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea on Iliad: “He related his fishing, and his combats, with natural poetry of expression; his recital took the form of an epic poem, and I seemed to be listening to a Canadian Homer singing the Iliad of the regions of the North.”
From the Earth to the Moon on The Man in the Moone: “In 1649 a Frenchman, one Jean Baudoin, published a ‘Journey performed from the Earth to the Moon by Domingo Gonzalez,’ a Spanish adventurer.”
From the Earth to the Moon on The Unparalleled Adventure of One Hans Pfaall: “a certain Hans Pfaal, of Rotterdam, launching himself in a balloon … reached the moon after a passage of nineteen hours. This journey, like all previous ones, was purely imaginary; still, it was the work of a popular American author—I mean Edgar Poe!”
From the Earth to the Moon on The Moon Hoax: “related how Sir John Herschel, having been despatched to the Cape of Good Hope … This _brochure_, the work of an American named Locke, had a great sale.”
Five Weeks in a Balloon on The Sources of the Nile: “It was entitled "The Sources of the Nile; being a General Survey of the Basin of that River and of its Head-Stream, with the History of the Nilotic Discovery, by Charles Beke, D.D."”
Five Weeks in a Balloon on The Monastery: “Kennedy's countenance strikingly recalled that of Herbert Glendinning, as Sir Walter Scott has depicted it in "The Monastery"”
Five Weeks in a Balloon on Robinson Crusoe: “and to some extent, I verily believe, of Selkirk (Robinson Crusoe), whom he considered in no wise inferior to the rest.”