In Eighty Days.
This author's characters include a railroad engineer from Richmond named Cyrus Smith, who helps rescue Ayrton, and a princess who gets saved from a fire named Aouda. He also wrote of an anti-nationalist who renounced the name Prince Dakkar, as told in this man's quasi-sequel The Mysterious Island. This man wrote about the hunter Ned Land and the kidnapped professor Arronax in a book that opens with reports of narwhal attacks, and in another of his books, the magic of time zones saves Phileas Fogg's wager. For 10 points, name this proto-science-fiction author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World In Eighty Days.
This author's characters include a railroad engineer from Richmond named Cyrus Smith, who helps rescue Ayrton, and a princess who gets saved from a fire named Aouda.
Jules Gabriel Verne