Utah, USA, 1869. Work on the Transcontinental Railroad connecting the east and west coasts keeps suffering mysterious mousehaps. Can it be the dastardly work of Catardone and his band of Pirate Cats? In the unlikely role of deputy sheriff, Geronimo Stilton must once again save the future by protecting the past

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?

The Pirate Cats travel to the 18th Century to do what they do best -- be pirates So they steal an old ship sailing on the Indian Ocean to pillage the East India Company's merchant ships It's up to Geronimo Stilton to travel through time, become a sailor, and stop the cats from changing history forever Will Geronimo get his sea legs in time to save the day?

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