Jules Verne
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The Underground City, by Jules Verne, is a novel about the fortunes of a mining community called Aberfoyle which is near Stirling, Scotland. Miner James Starr, after receiving a letter from an old friend, leaves for the Aberfoyle mine. Although believed to be mined out a decade earlier, James Starr finds a mine overman, Simon Ford, along with his family living deep inside the mine. Simon Ford has found a large vein of coal in the mine but the characters...
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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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1866. Um medonho monstro marinho tem provocado o terror nos mares e causado sérios danos às ligações transatlânticas. Para tentar capturar o terrífico animal, é enviada uma expedição da qual faz parte o professor Pierre Aronnax, um eminente naturalista especializado em criaturas marinhas. Porém, para sua surpresa, o monstro não é outro senão o Naulitus, um submarino construído pelo enigmático capitão Nemo, que convida o professor e...
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A classic novel of world adventure literature "twenty Thousand League Under The Sea" - is one of the most known works by Jules Verne. A unique submarine ship "nautilus" with fearless hands of a captain Nemo aboard sets out on a journey round the world by the unexplored bosoms of the sea. No doubts this journey promises unforgettable experience for readers.
65) The Moon-Voyage
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Having been fired out of the giant Columbiad space gun, the Baltimore Gun Club's bullet-shaped projectile, along with its three passengers, Barbicane, Nicholl and Michel Ardan, begins the five-day trip to the moon. A few minutes into the journey, a small, bright asteroid passes within a few hundred yards of them, but does not collide with the projectile. The asteroid had been captured by the Earth's gravity and had become a second moon.
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When his son Louis and members of the crew of the ship Jeune-Hardie, do not return from sea, Jean Cornbutte decides to refit the ship and go north to find them. Accompanying him on this trip is his son's fiancée, Marie, and the man who would be his son's rival for her affections, the ship's first officer, André Vasling. When the missing party is found in the extreme north, the only thing left to do is survive the bitter cold and rivalry. Jules Verne...
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This volume presents the complete works of Jules Verne (47 novels.) Jules Gabriel Verne (1828 — 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. Verne's collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in...
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The Fur Country, or, Seventy Degrees North Latitude is an adventure novel by Jules Verne. Synopsis: In 1859 Lt. Jasper Hobson and other members of the Hudson's Bay Company travel through the Northwest Territories of Canada to Cape Bathurst on the Arctic Ocean on the mission to create a fort at 70 degrees, north of the Arctic Circle. The area they come to is very rich with wildlife and natural resources. Jasper Hobson and his party establish a fort...
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Writing in France in the nineteenth century, Jules Verne was fascinated by adventure and exploration. Collecting "A Journey to the Center of the Earth", "Around the World in 80 Days", "From the Earth to the Moon", "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" and "The Mysterious Island", this omnibus offers a unique compilation of five of Verne's Voyages, stories in which he extrapolated developing technology and invention into marvellous fiction. This...
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Récit de trois voyages autour du monde.
James Cook (1728-1779) grandit en Angleterre o il débuta comme mousse, puis étudia la géométrie et l'astronomie à Halifax et fit le relevé des ctes de Terre-Neuve entre 1762 et 1767.
Jules Verne raconte ses trois voyages et fait une large place aux notes de Cook. La description des mœurs des indigènes — avec lesquels il s'efforça d'être pacifique —, ses anecdotes pittoresques et les paysages...
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Une édition de référence de Deux ans de vacances de Jules Verne, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« Il était onze heures du soir. Sous cette latitude, au commencement du mois de mars, les nuits sont courtes encore. Les premières blancheurs du jour ne devaient apparaître que vers cinq heures du matin. Mais les dangers qui menaçaient le Sloughi seraient-ils moins grands lorsque le soleil éclairerait l'espace...
76) Round the Moon
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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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"Le Tour du monde en 80 jours" de Jules Verne est un roman d'aventure captivant et intemporel. Phileas Fogg, gentleman anglais, parie avec ses amis qu'il peut faire le tour du monde en 80 jours. Accompagné de son serviteur Passepartout, Fogg se lance dans une course effrénée contre le temps, affrontant des obstacles et des imprévus. Verne crée un univers foisonnant d'aventures et de péripéties, mêlant le réalisme des descriptions des pays...
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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 :
Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours (1873)
L'Île mystérieuse...
79) Around the Moon
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Embark on an exhilarating celestial adventure with Jules Verne's "Around the Moon." As the sequel to the groundbreaking "From the Earth to the Moon," this novel continues the daring exploits of the brave astronauts from the Baltimore Gun Club. Cast into space by a colossal cannon, their spacecraft, the Columbiad, is destined for a journey around the moon, plunging the crew into the heart of the unknown.
"Around the Moon" is a testament to Verne's...
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Jules Verne's "Journey to the Center of the Earth" is an enthralling odyssey that takes readers on an extraordinary expedition into the very bowels of the Earth, unlocking the mysteries that lie beneath the surface. Published in 1864, this timeless adventure begins with the eccentric Professor Otto Lidenbrock, whose insatiable thirst for knowledge propels him to uncover an ancient Icelandic manuscript containing cryptic clues to a subterranean world.
As...