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Five Weeks in a Balloon is not only the first installment in Jules Verne's celebrated Voyages Extraordinaires series, but also the first of Verne's works to earn him widespread popularity as a writer of science fiction and adventure novels.
Following his invention of an ingenious new air balloon capable of long-distance flight, Dr. Samuel Fergusson embarks on the adventure of a lifetime with his trusted servant, Joe, and loyal friend, Dick Kennedy....
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Taken aboard the submarine Nautilus by Captain Nemo, the narrator and his companions find themselves captives on a spectacular tour of the world's oceans, and witnesses to Nemo's increasingly obsessive hatred of the surface world.
Professor Pierre Aronnax was rescued from drowning by Captain Nemo, who insists that in order to protect the secret of his submarine, Aronnax must stay on board the Nautilus for the rest of his life. They explore the oceans,...
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Bored with inactivity following the end of the Civil War, members of the American Gun Club look for a project that will fulfil their passion for firearms. After much frustration, club President Barbicane proposes an exciting new endeavour – one that will cement their names in history: they will build the largest projectile ever known to man and shoot it at the moon. The bullet will be hollowed to fit the club's president and two companions, along...
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En la isla de los Estados, una isla de la Patagonia argentina, donde se confunden los océanos Atlántico y Pacífico, habita una banda de piratas dirigidos por el terrible Kongre. Estos piratas se dedican a atacar embarcaciones que encallan en la zona.
Su modo de vida se ve seriamente amenazado cuando el gobierno argentino construye y pone en funcionamiento un faro (el llamado Faro del Fin del Mundo) que dejan al cuidado de tres fareros. Los piratas...
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1864: Der schottische Lord Edward Glenarvan findet auf der Jungfernfahrt seiner Dampfjacht Duncan im Magen eines erlegten Hammerhaies eine Flaschenpost. Sie birgt drei gleiche Schriften, je eine auf Deutsch, Englisch und Französisch. Aus der Kombination dieser teilweise vom Salzwasser zerfressenen Mitteilungen ergibt sich, dass der verschollen geglaubte Kapitän Grant mit zwei Matrosen einen Schiffbruch am 7. Juni 1862 überlebt hat. Nur die geografische...
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This superb collection of classic science fiction features the best of Jules Verne's epic adventure stories, including Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863), A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), From the Earth to the Moon (1865), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Often called the "father of science fiction," Verne was a masterful storyteller and visionary, anticipating such technological...
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In its first English translation in more than 100 years, a story of a world in which energy shortages lead a group of Americans to devise a radical solution, for their own gain, which puts the whole earth at risk In one of his best-known books, From the Earth to the Moon, Jules Verne described how a group of men in the Gun Club of Baltimore used a giant cannon to send a spacecraft to the moon. Now, in this sequel,...
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Jules Verne's classic science fiction sequel to "From the Earth to the Moon", "Round the Moon" is a forward-looking examination of the possibilities of space travel. One of the first books to look at the challenges and adventures of space travel, "Round the Moon" starts off where "From the Earth to the Moon" left off. We follow the crew of the projectile built by the Baltimore Gun Club on a journey towards their intended destination. Will they make...
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First published in 1874, "The Mysterious Island" is French author Jules Verne's exciting adventure which begins amidst the siege on Richmond, Virginia, during the American Civil War. Five northern prisoners plan an unconventional escape by hijacking a hot air balloon. What is in store for them is more than they bargained for. Cyrus Harding, an engineer in the union army; his servant Nebuchadnezzar, a former slave; sailor Bonadventure Pencroft; his...
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Der englische Gentleman Philias Fogg wettet mit anderen Mitgliedern seines Clubs, dass er es schafft, in 80 Tagen um die Welt zu reisen. Gleich an diesem Abend begibt er sich mit seinem Diener Passepartout auf eine weite Reise um die Welt. Die beiden erleben allerhand Abenteuer: Sie werden vom Geheimagent Fix verfolgt, retten eine indische Witwe, fahren mit dem Schiff nach Hongkong und haben in Amerika Probleme mit einer Büffelherde und Indianern...
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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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After escaping from their captors in a giant air balloon, five prisoners of the Civil War find themselves stranded on a deserted island. Despite their different backgrounds, they decide to band together and combine their talents to live on the island, which they named Lincoln Island. Cyrus is a railroad engineer, Gideon is a journalist, Neb is a man who escaped slavery, Pencroff is a sailor, and Harbert is Pencroff's protégé and son. Each man uses...
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Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon is a unique addition to Jules Verne's beloved adventure series, Voyages Extraordinaire, as it is among the few Verne novels that does not include elements of science fiction. Instead, Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon combines the adventure genre with a murder mystery. After being falsely accused of a crime, Joam Garral was forced to flee Brazil. Now, many years later, he is living on a thriving Peruvian plantation...
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"I see that it is by no means useless to travel, if a man wants to see something new."
Jules Verne's classic novel Around the World in Eighty Days follows the adventures of Phileas Fogg and his faithful valet Passepartout as they attempt to circumnavigate the globe in 80 days or less.
A wealthy English gentleman, Fogg spends most of his time at his club. One day he got involved in an argument over a newspaper article stating that with the opening...
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En La isla misteriosa encontramos múltiples pasajes que nos llevan, junto con los personajes, a vivir aventuras llenas de acción, drama, fantasía, tecnología y ciencia. La tensión con la que narra el naufragio de cinco hombres del gobierno en plena guerra, también nos conduce a experimentar la sorprendente manera de sobrevivir en unan isla en la que, incluso, cuenta con una fauna extraña y fantástica.
17) From the Earth to the Moon: Direct in Ninety-seven Hours and Twenty Minutes: And a Trip Around It
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This edition includes a modern introduction and a list of suggested further reading. Scarcely more than a century after Jules Verne published one of the most enduring and captivating novels of the nineteenth century in 1865-From the Earth to the Moon-Apollo 8 circled the moon on Christmas Eve in 1968 carrying the first human beings to fly around another celestial body. With uncanny futuristic vision, Verne had not only anticipated that the launch...
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Godfrey Morgan: A Californian Mystery, also published as School for Crusoes, is an 1882 adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne. The novel tells of a wealthy young man, Godfrey Morgan, who, with his deportment instructor, Professor T. Artelett, embark from San Francisco, California, on a round-the-world ocean voyage. They are cast away on an uninhabited Pacific island, where they must endure a series of adversities. Later, they encounter an African...
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Jules Verne: Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen-Mit 32 Illustrationen und einer Karte der Reiseroute Für die eBook-Ausgabe neu lektoriert, mit modernisierter Rechtschreibung, verlinktem eBook-Inhaltsverzeichnis und zahllreichen verlinkten Fußnoten Vor der Eröffnung des Suezkanals und der Fertigstellung der transamerikanischen Eisenbahn (beides 1869) war eine Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen ein Ding der Unmöglichkeit. Beide Ereignisse fielen in Jules...
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Blast off with "From the Earth to the Moon," a visionary science fiction masterpiece from the iconic Jules Verne. This groundbreaking novel spins an extraordinary tale of the daring Baltimore Gun Club, a post-Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, who devise an audacious plan to catapult a spaceship to the moon. In the era before actual lunar expeditions, Verne astonishingly predicts technological advancements and the thrill of space exploration,...
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