The Steam House is an 1880 Jules Verne novel recounting the travels of a group of British colonists in the Raj in a wheeled house pulled by a steam-powered mechanical elephant. Verne uses the mechanical house as a plot device to have the reader... Wikipedia
Originally published: 1880
Author: Jules Verne
Genre: Adventure novel
Original title: La Maison à vapeur
Series: The Extraordinary Voyages #20