Jules Verne
Author
Description
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,...
Author
Description
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...
Author
Description
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...
Author
Description
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...
Author
Description
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...
Author
Description
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,...
Author
Series
Description
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...
Author
Description
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...
Author
Series
Description
En 1839, l'Américain Jeorling, minéralogiste, de passage aux îles Kerguelen, cherche à retourner dans son Connecticut natal. Il rencontre Len Guy, le capitaine de la goélette l'Halbrane ; celui-ci accepte tant bien que mal de l'emmener. Le départ a lieu le 15 août 1839.
Cette œuvre se présente comme une suite au roman d'Edgar Allan Poe — auquel il est dédié —, Les Aventures d'Arthur Gordon Pym, publié en 1838. Alors que le texte de...
Author
Series
Description
‘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.
Author
Series
Description
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...
Author
Description
Le scientifique-physiologiste Ox arrive à Kikandon, en Flandre occidentale, avec son assistant. Comme il l'a dit, son objectif est d'illuminer complètement la ville avec du gaz oxhydrique émis par l'air. Seulement, personne ne savait si c'était vrai. Bientt, dans une ville paisible et non pressée, des choses étranges ont commencé à se produire, se transformant en une „épidémie".