Jules Verne
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Dick Sand is a fifteen-year-old boy serving on the schooner Pilgrim as a sailor. The crew are whale hunters that voyage every year down to New Zealand. After an unsuccessful season of hunting an entomologist ask for a return passage to San Francisco. Several days into the journey they save five shipwrecked passengers from another ship and a dog who was with them at the time.
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Julio Verne fue un genio, posiblemente el más grande novelista de ciencia ficción y aventuras de la literatura universal. No hay niño, adolescente o adulto que no conozca sus historias, ya sea por su lectura, por sus adaptaciones al cine, a los cómics o al teatro.
Referirnos a este autor francés es hablar de imaginación, creatividad, acción trepidante, diversión y entretenimiento, ilusión, ciencia, visión adelantada a su tiempo y trama...
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A thrilling subterranean adventure filled with startling and strange discoveries
When Professor Otto Liedenbrock comes across a strange code, he is convinced that it points the way to reaching the center of the earth. With the help of his nephew Axel, he deciphers the code and with Axel at his side, sets off for Iceland. There, they venture down the crater of a volcano. Travelling further and further, deeper into the earth using a series of interconnected...
124) The Golden Volcano
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‘The Golden Volcano’ is a writing work of a French novelist Jules Verne (fr. Jules Verne, 1828-1905). The lead characters are two cousins, who receive an inheritance from their uncle, a gold mine at outland Klondike. Weighing all advantages and disadvantages, they decide to go to Alaska.
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Jules Verne: Reise zum Mittelpunkt der Erde-Mit 35 Illustrationen Für die eBook-Ausgabe neu lektoriert, mit modernisierter Rechtschreibung und verlinktem eBook-Inhaltsverzeichnis Der Hamburger Professor Lidenbrock hat in einem Antiquariat einen unschätzbaren Fund gemacht: Ein uraltes isländisches Buch. Während er es aufgeregt seinem Neffen Axel zeigt, fällt ein rätselhaftes Pergament heraus, bekritzelt mit Runen.-Tagelang arbeitet der Professor...
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The story is set in 1839, eleven years after the events in Edgar Allan Poe's novel "Arthur Gordon Pym". The narrator is a wealthy American, named Jeorling, who has entertained himself with private studies of the wildlife on the Kerguelen Islands and is now looking for a passage back to the USA. The Halbrane is one of the first ships to arrive at Kerguelen, and its captain Len Guy who somewhat reluctantly agrees to have Jeorling as a passenger. Underway,...
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Four iconic novels of adventure, science, and fantasy from a master storyteller far ahead of his time. In Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, a monster wreaks havoc in the waters of the Atlantic Ocean. The US government sends a French marine biologist, his servant, and a Canadian harpoonist to take care of the problem. But instead of a mythic beast, the team finds the submarine Nautilus and its fearsome helmsman, Captain Nemo. Around the World...
128) Bougainville
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Epuisée depuis plusieurs années, cette étonnante biographie de Louis-Antoine de Bougainville (1729-1811) est à nouveau disponible, publiée à l'occasion du bicentenaire de la mort de cet immense et intrépide navigateur. Des nombreuses carrières de ce fils de notaire qui mourut couvert d'honneurs, Jules Verne relate celle qu'il fit dans la marine. Intellectuel curieux de tout, botaniste, il accomplit à bord de La Boudeuse de 1766 à 1769 un...
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Jules Verne est un écrivain français dont l'œuvre est, pour la plus grande partie, constituée de romans d'aventures évoquant les progrès scientifiques du XIXe siècle.
Dans ces trois grands romans, le fantastique se mêle à la prospective scientifique dans des histoires rocambolesques pleines de curiosités.
Cet ouvrage contient trois des plus fameux romans de Jules Verne :
Voyage au centre de la Terre (1864)
De la Terre à la Lune (1865)
Vingt...
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When an eccentric professor acquires an ancient book, a riddle on a spare piece of parchment tucked neatly within its pages leads him and his nephew on an unparalleled adventure. The unlocked riddle brings them to a remote mountain on Iceland, where they enter an extinct volcano on a daring quest to reach the center of the earth. They soon find themselves at a giant underground ocean where the laws of science are constantly redefined and prehistoric...
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Writing in France in the nineteenth century, Jules Verne captured his era's fascination with adventure and exploration in a series of novels he referred to as his Voyages extraordinaires. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Other Classic Novels is a unique compilation of six of Verne's best-known novels that extrapolate developing technology and scientific inquisitiveness into rousing adventures as exciting and provocative today as when they were first...
132) Michel Strogoff
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Une édition de référence de Michel Strogoff de Jules Verne, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« – Sire, une nouvelle dépêche.
– D'o vient-elle ?
– De Tomsk.
– Le fil est coupé au-delà de cette ville ?
– Il est coupé depuis hier.
– D'heure en heure, général, fais passer un télégramme à Tomsk, et que l'on me tienne au courant.
– Oui, Sire, répondit le général Kissoff.
Ces paroles...
133) The Adventures of a Special Correspondent Among the Various Races and Countries of Central Asia
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One of the few written from the first person perspective, Verne fills this journey with plentiful characters, subplots, and twists. Delightful to read, it keeps its momentum amidst a bit of nationalistic stereotyping and subtle humor. (Amazon)
134) The Young Travellers
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By tradition of one of London schools, eight scholarship holders were awarded with a travel throughout the world. This time benefactress assigned a trip to the Antilles. At first, pupils who dreamed about Africa, India and Australia a bit disappointed. However, the adventures that came their way compensated all the imaginable impressions.
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Viajero infatigable, escritor prolífico y uno de los autores más leídos durante los dos últimos siglos, las generaciones que han crecido junto a Jules Verne son cómplices de sus visiones e inquietudes.
Viaje al centro de la mente reúne —en una cuidada edición de Mauro Armiño— ensayos científicos, estudios literarios, como el dedicado a Edgar Allan Poe, y artículos históricos, como el que se ocupa del motín del Bounty, además de conferencias,...
136) Le village aérien
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Au cœur de l'Afrique, dans une forêt impénétrable, celle de l'Oubanghi, deux explorateurs blancs accompagnés d'un indigène et d'un enfant noir découvrent une peuplade inconnue, qui vit dans les arbres. Ces deux héros, un Français et un Américain, nommés M
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Miner James Starr, after receiving a letter from an old friend, leaves for the Aberfoyle mine which was supposed to be mined out a decade earlier. Much to James' surprise he finds Simon Ford and his family living deep inside the mine. Simon found a large vein of coal in the mine but they have to deal with mysterious and unexplainable happenings in and around the mine.
138) An Antarctic Mystery
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But strange as the journey may be, it's nowhere near as strange as what they will find waiting at its end.
One of the lesser known novels by Jules Verne, but certainly a novel that is worth reading, An Antarctic Mystery or The Sphinx of the Ice Fields is a fictional travelogue that describes the narrator's adventures as he travels from Kerguelen Islands, a group of islands in the Indian Ocean, towards the South Pole.
The novel is the account of the...
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A series of unexplained happenings occur across the eastern United States, caused by objects moving with such great speed that they are nearly invisible. The first-person narrator John Strock, 'Head inspector in the federal police department' travels to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina to investigate and discovers that all the phenomena are being caused by Robur, a brilliant inventor who had previously appeared in Verne's Robur the Conqueror....
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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Underground City; Or, The Black Indies (Sometimes Called The Child of the Cavern)" by Jules Verne. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion...