The Purchase of the North Pole by Jules Verne

Yes! Like Jupiter.

At the time of that memorable meeting in honour of Michel Ardan-so appropriately mentioned by the orator-if J. T. Maston had excitedly exclaimed, "Let us right the Earth's axis," it was because the daring and fantastical Frenchman, one of the heroes of the Moon Voyage, had chanted his dithyrambic hymn in honour of the most important planets of our solar system. In his superb panegyric he had celebrated the special advantages of the giant planet, as we briefly reported at the time.