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All Around The Moon, first published in 1870, is the sequel to Vernes novel From the Earth To The Moon. The three passengers of the Columbiad space gun take off to their five-day journey to the moon. On their way to the moon and back, the astronauts face a lot of adventures and mishaps. Finally all hope seems lost when their projectile starts to fall towards the earth from more than 160.000 miles ...

EDIZIONE REVISIONATA 24/05/2019.Pierre Aronnax e un docente universitario di storia naturale a Parigi , famoso per la sua opera sulla vita sottomarina.Prende parte insieme al suo servo e al fiociniere Ned Land a una spedizione per liberare definitivamente i mari da un misterioso mostro marino che affonda le navi.I tre si imbattono nella creatura nel mezzo del mar del Giappone e durante lo scontro vengono scaraventati in acqua riuscendo a salvarsi rifugiandosi su quella che ,sembrava unisola galleggiante, ma in realta scoprono essere il famigerato mostro.Scopriranno che di mostro non si tratta, ma del sottomarino Nautilus, mezzo sconosciuto in quel tempo, nel quale saranno per cosi dire ospiti del capitano del vascello , Nemo.Nonostante i continui tentativi di fuga da parte del protagonista , i personaggi visiteranno Atlantide, combatteranno contro calamari giganti, navigheranno sotto il canale di Suez e verranno a conoscenza delle meraviglie del mondo sottomarino imparando a conoscere la strana indole di Nemo, chiuso in se stesso e astioso verso il mondo terreno.

A book of remarkable and thrilling adventures, very much in the style of Mr. Vernes previous books, and adapted to interest either boy-readers or adults. The "Giant raft" is as immense as the "Steam house," and the characters and incidents quite as original. The story opens with the finding of a paper of hieroglyphics by an adventurer in a Brazilian foresthe puts it wiih some gold coin in a silver case, places it near his head, and falls asleep. The object excites the attention of a "guariba" (whom Mr. Verne describes at length), and he steals it and makes off; after this follows a long string of queer adventures connected with the silver case.

"The Adventures Of Captain Hatteras" is an adventure novel by jules Verne. He describes the adventures of a North Pole expedition under Captain Hatteras. After a mutiny on their ship the members have to find a way to survive the polar winter. After long and enduring months they finally build a boat from the shipwreck and head for the pole. There they find an active volcano, in which Captain Hatteras falls ...

Jules Verne has not written a more sane and well-sustained story than this. The excellent descriptions of a wild region in Transylvania and the accounts of the homely ways and daily life of the shepherds and villagers give it an air of veracity not to be expected from this author. The mysterious castle is finely set among the cliffs in an almost inaccessible place. It has been the scene of tragedies, and now after having been long abandoned it is supposed to be the home of supernatural beings of diabolic power. After one desperate attempt to reach it the villagers are stricken with terror, and affairs are in a deplorable state when two travelers arrive. One of them, Count Franz, has reasons of his own for believing it to be the hiding place of a certain enemy of his. He sets out to ascertain, and the mystery of its magic powers is revealed by the fact that two men are using for their own purpose electric batteries and telephones. A tragic romance and the destiny of several individuals are complicated with the physical phenomena in a way that no one but the inventive and ingenious author would have thought of. The glimpses of life in a fascinating country too little known make the book worth reading.

En 1872, Phileas Fogg, un rico londinense obsesionado por la puntualidad y la exactitud, realiza una apuesta donde pone en juego la mitad de su fortuna.Acompañado por Rigodon, su atlético y espontáneo mayordomo, se va de Londres para dar comienzo a una increible carrera contra reloj: dispone de 80 dias para dar una vuelta al mundo ya sea por aire, por mar o por tierra.Los dos protagonistas seran retrasados en su proyecto por el inspector Fix, que relaciona el hecho de la repentina partida de Fogg, con el robo del Banco de Inglaterra y lo persigue convencido que fue el autor del delito."La vuelta al mundo en 80 dias" es una de las mas notables y divertidas aventuras surgidas de la pluma de del fantastico Julio Verne.Si bien Verne es considerado uno de los padres de la ciencia ficcion, la especulacion cientifica y la anticipacion de inventos que apareceran posteriormente a su epoca son algunas de las caracteristicas mas destacadas de su obra. En este caso priman la accion y el intento de demostrar que la audacia puede superar a todas las fronteras.

A book from the pen of Jules Verne is its own best advertisement. Mistress Branican shows no falling off in the authors imaginative faculties or vivacity. This is the first of bis books in which a woman has been made the central figure. Perhaps the flying trips around the world made by Miss Bisland and " Nelly Bly"gave him the idea. At any rate, it is a good one. Mistress Branican, however, traveled with a caravan, and not with a small hand-bag. The adventures of this lady on her travels are thrilling and humorous at the same time, and the whole is told with that air of sincerity which is peculiar to the romances of Jules Verne.

Natalis Delpierre, a Captain in the French Army, is going to see his sister Irma, who lives in Prussia in the service of Madame Keller and her son Jean. When the war between France and Germany breaks out in 1792, Natalis, Irma and several others need to flee to their home country while Jean joins the Prussian Army. But when he battles his superior officer because of a woman, he also needs to flee fast ...

There were few countries which were so full of interest to the world as was Russia. In laying the scene of this story in this great empire, Jules Verne seems to have aimed to gratify his readers. A revolt in some of the remoter provinces makes it necessary for the Czar to communicate with his brother, the Grand Duke, at Irkutsk. Michael Strogoff, one of the corps of the couriers of the Czar, is selected for the dangerous service. His marvelous coolness, prudence, and courage are constantly and thoroughly tested in the course of his perilous journey, but atlast he falls into the hands of the insurgents. The story of his thrilling adventures is related with such vivid power as to make it seem like an actual narrative, while the descriptions of the country, of the people, and of their customs are evidently the result of actual study and close observation.

This masterpiece relates entirely to the science of astronomy. It is a sequel to "All Around The Moon," and continues the career of Hector Servadac and his friends on the comet " Gallia," and relates their approach to the planet Jupiter. It is full of adventures of the most wonderful kind,and is embellished by plenty of very good illustrations.

The Lottery Ticket is not one of Mr. Vernes typical sea-air-adventure-stories, although it belongs to the authors well-known series called Voyages Extraordinaires. Ole Kamp, a fisherman, promises his wife-to-be Hulda, that he will make her rich after one more journey with a fishing-boat. But the boat never returns - instead a bottle arrives, containing a note for Hulda and the lottery ticket. News about the supposed tragedy mingle with high expectations and drawing-day is coming nearer and nearer ....

We leave it to the critics to determine the value of Jules Vernes descriptions if they were shorn of the marvellous in which he delights to clothe them. All we can say is. his grotesque images are highly amusing. Here we have the story of the Sepoy Mutiny in India, and hear a great deal about the terrible Nana who set it a-going. The Steam House is a gigantic engine of steel, fashioned like a huge elephant, impelled by steam, and dragging several vast cars as big as houses, up and down the country. We meet with this droll conception in many of the fabulous illustrations by a French artist.

The scene of Vernes adventure tale is laid in Florida, and the book is full of thrilling adventures and marvellous escapes by land and water. The hero, Mr. Burbank, a Northerner, for some years settled in the South, is a fine manly fellow, who scorns to tell anything but the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, when confronted by his enemies who had usurped authority in Jacksonville during those troublous times. The attack on Castle House is well told, and the excitement is great when it seems as though the tide will not admit the passage of the Federal gunboats over the river bar, and that our hero and his son will be sacrificed to the vengeance of their enemies. However, a fortunate gale carries the boats over the bar, and father and son are set at liberty, to begin what looks like almost a hopeless search amongst the creeks and islets of the St. Johns River for the missing child who, with her attendant, has been kidnapped by the same villain who had plotted the murder of her father and brother. We have an exciting voyage up the river nearly to its source, and a subsequent journey through forest and morass, with at last a rescue, though not before the faithful attendant has received a savage, though not mortal, wound. The whole story is well told, and the interest is sustained to the end. There are more than eighty illustrations of the different critical events recorded, showing, too, the lovely scenery of Florida with its luxuriant vegetation.

This time Mr. Vernes novel is set in beautiful Norway. The wealthy schoolfriend of schoolmaster Malarius discovers that Erik, one of his students, is actually an orphan and was raised by a local fisherman. He takes the bright, young lad to Stockholm and tries to find out where the roots of his mysterious life lay ...

A story from the untiring pen of Jules Verne has always been welcomed from a very wide circle of readers. No one that we ever knew has yet tired of the wwards works. He takes his characters through the wildest and most improbable (to say no more) incidents, and yet he describes everything as though it were not only probable, but actually true, and while we are deep in one of his stories we believe everything that we read. Captain Antifers father had befriended an Egyptian prisoner at Ja, Ramylk lasha, and many years after he received a mysterious document naming latitude 24 degrees 59 minutes north, and saying that the longitude would follow later. It never did; but Antifer succeeded in discovering it, and had a series ofmost exciting adventures in searching for the wealth which was to be found on the spot indicated. The story, which is thrillingly interesting from beginning to end, is lavishly illustrated.

Este viaje alrededor de la Luna, continuación del relato titulado De la Tierra a la Luna, es la prolongación novelada del Verne que sabe combinar, con el artificio del narrador vigoroso, los mitos lunares imaginados por el hombre desde los inicios de la humanidad con los conocimientos cientificos del siglo XIX. Esa mezcla, ese tejido de fantasia y conocimientos, es lo que constituye el aporte original de Verne.

El doctor Samuel Fergusson, sabio y explorador inglés, acompañado por su criado Joe y por su amigo Dick Kennedy, decide atravesar el continente africano, que hasta ese momento sólo era conocido de modo fragmentario, usando un globo hinchado con hidrogeno. Un dispositivo de su invencion, que permite subir o bajar a voluntad sin perder gas o echar lastre en busca de corrientes favorables, convierte al globo en un aparato dirigible.