It's a race to the bottom of the world when Geronimo and his friends Petunia, Benjamin, Trap, and Bruce join explorer Roald Amundsen’s expedition to reach the South Pole in 1911. From Norway, through Portugal, and then straight on to the Bay of Whales in Antarctica. They’ll have to evade the sneaky sabotage of the Pirate Cats to make sure Amundsen is the very first person to reach the Pole!

Geronimo Stilton, the attributed author, is a fictional mouse.

The popular children’s story appears in graphic novel form for the first time in the U.S., with stories never seen in America. Geronimo Stilton is a talking mouse who lives in New Mouse City on Mouse Island with his friends and relatives. He works at The Rodent’s Gazette, the most famous newspaper in New Mouse City. In this series of comics, Geronimo Stilton travels through time in order to defend history from his arch nemeses, the Pirate Cats. These devious felines plan to travel back in time in order to change history to make them supreme rulers of Mouse Island!

Thanks to one of the Lumiere brothers' first screenings, Paris in 1896 is the site of a historic event: the birth of motion pictures. The Pirate Cats go back in time to steal the brilliant invention, the cinematograph, in order to go down in history as the inventors of the movies! Can Geronimo and his friends thwart the Cats' evil plans and keep Catardone from becoming a star?

Geronimo, Trap, Pandora, Benjamin and Patti return to the era of Louis XIII on the trail of the Pirate Cats. At Fontainebleu Castle they enroll in Richelieu's army of mousketeers and are commanded by the cardinal to oppose two brigands in the area. The mice discover that the brigands are no other than Cattardone and Tersilla who have replaced Louis XIII with Bonzo! Our heroes must find the real Louis XIII and and put him back on the throne.

The Pirate Cats are up to no good again! This time, Bonzo and company travel to Rome, Italy in the year 80 AD to the opening of the Colosseum, Rome's largest amphitheater. The evil felines want the world to think it was they who designed the Coliseum, and infiltrate the Senate by posing as nobility. Geronimo and friends must hop into their speedy time machine and expose the cats' wily plot, all the while taking in historical landmarks and breathtaking moments of history.