Jules Verne
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Une édition de référence du Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours de Jules Verne, spécialement conçue pour la lecture sur les supports numériques.
« — Un bon Anglais ne plaisante jamais, quand il s'agit d'une chose aussi sérieuse qu'un pari, répondit Phileas Fogg. Je parie vingt mille livres contre qui voudra que je ferai le tour de la Terre en quatre-vingts jours ou moins, soit dix-neuf cent vingt heures ou cent quinze mille deux cents...
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"The Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras" is a gripping exploration of uncharted territories by the visionary Jules Verne. It chronicles the relentless ambition of Captain Hatteras, who, driven by an insatiable hunger for discovery, undertakes a perilous journey towards the North Pole. Battling extreme weather conditions, mutinous crew, and the uncertainty of unexplored regions, Hatteras demonstrates unyielding courage and determination in...
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"L'Île mystérieuse" de Jules Verne est un roman d'aventure palpitant qui suit un groupe de naufragés sur une île apparemment déserte. Ensemble, ils doivent apprendre à survivre et à explorer leur nouvel environnement, tout en cherchant à résoudre les mystères qui entourent leur présence sur l'île. Au fil de leur aventure, ils découvrent des technologies avancées et des créatures étranges, et finissent par réaliser que leur naufrage...
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IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
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Scientist Pierre Aronnax and his trusty servant set sail to hunt a sea monster. With help from the world's greatest harpooner, the men discover that the creature is really a high-tech submarine with a mysterious leader, Captain Nemo. These reader-favorite tiles are now updated for enhanced Common Core State Standards support, including discussion and writing prompts developed by a Common Core expert, an expanded introduction, bolded glossary words...
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Fonolibro se enorgullece en presentar el audiolibro La Vuelta al Mundo en 80 Dias de Julio Verne. ?Considerada una de las más apasionantes y divertidas aventuras de la ingeniosa pluma de Julio Verne?
En 1872, Phileas Fogg, un rico caballero inglés, obsesionado por la puntualidad y la exactitud, realiza una temeraria apuesta, arriesgando en ello, no sólo su fortuna, sino también su vida.
Acompañado por su atlético y espontáneo criado francés,...
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The American Civil War plot centers on the exploits of James Playfair who must break the Union blockade of the harbour of Charleston in South Carolina to trade supplies for cotton and, later in the book, to rescue the father of a young girl held prisoner by the Confederates. Verne's tale was inspired by reality as many ships were actually lost while acting as blockade runners in and around Charleston in the early eighteen sixties.
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The story starts with a comet called Gallia, that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. The disaster occurred on January 1 of the year 188x in the area around Gibraltar. On the territory that was carried away by the comet there remained a total of thirty-six people of French, English, Spanish and Russian nationality. These people did not realize at first what had happened, and considered the collision an earthquake....
28) The Field of Ice
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The first-written of Verne's "Voyages Extraordinaires" series, this novel traces the quest of a group of four Englishmen and one American to be the first to reach the North Pole. (Goodreads)
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An explorer obsessed with reaching the North Pole undertakes a harrowing expedition in this classic novel of adventure and survival in the Arctic.
Capt. John Hatteras will stop at nothing to reach the North Pole. After having a steamship built for the purpose, he embarks for terra incognita. But when he encounters a frozen sea, mutiny and shipwreck leave Hatteras and his remaining crew stranded on an island in the harsh Arctic winter. Even in the...
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Here is one of those "forgotten" works. Ticket No. "9672" is a fascinating tale of two women who live in a Norway Inn. Dame Hansen is a foolish creature whose mistakes must be dealt with by her daughter Hulda. Coming to their aid is their brother Joel and the remarkable Sylvius Hogg, who helps them all after the young Hansens rescue him from the edge of the Rjukanfos Waterfall.
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Originally published in French in 1867, Michael Strogoff, or, the Courier of the Czar, is regarded as one of Jules Verne's greatest novels. This intriguing tale set in Russia tells the story of one man, Michael Strogoff, the Czar's courier, who is set out on an impossible mission to save his country. A traitor inspires the dangerous Feofar Khan to invade Siberia and form a rebellion, leading to a plot to kill the czar's brother, the Grand Duke. As...
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Aboard the Abraham Lincoln, an American frigate, French oceanographer Pierre Aronnax and his unflappable assistant Conseil assist crew on an expedition in search of a ship-destroying monster. A sudden collision hurls Aronnax, Conseil, and one other crew member into the sea. They find safety on the very menace they had been hunting, which they discover is the futuristic submarine the Nautilus piloted by the enigmatic Captain Nemo-inventor, musician,...
33) Facing the Flag
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Thomas Roch, a brilliant French inventor, has designed the Fulgurator, a weapon so powerful that the state which acquired it would become absolute master of earth and ocean. However, unable to sell his unproven idea to France or any other government, Roch begins to lose his sanity, becoming bitter, megalomaniacal and paranoid. The United States Government reacts by tucking him away at a luxurious asylum in New Bern, North Carolina, where he is visited...
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Embarquez pour un voyage époustouflant vers les confins de l'espace avec "De la Terre à la Lune" de Jules Verne. Ce roman captivant vous transporte dans une aventure incroyable o l'imagination et la science se rencontrent. Lorsqu'un groupe de passionnés décide de tirer un boulet de canon vers la lune, les limites de l'exploration spatiale sont repoussées. Plongez dans les détails fascinants du projet audacieux, des préparatifs minutieux aux...
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Adventures of British expedition led by Captain John Hatteras to the North Pole. Hatteras is convinced that the sea around the pole is not frozen and his obsession is to reach the place no matter what. Mutiny by the crew results in destruction of their ship but Hatteras, with a few men, continues on the expedition. On the shore of the island of New America he discovers the remains of a ship used by the previous expedition from the United States.
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Michael Strogoff, a 30-year-old native of Omsk,, is a courier for Tsar Alexander II of Russia. The Tartar Khan, Feofar Khan, incites a rebellion and separates the Russion Far East from the mainland, severing telegraph lines. Rebels encircle Irkutsk, where the local governor, brother of the Tsar, is making a last stand. Strogoff is sent to Irkutsk to warn the governor about the traitor Ivan Ogareff. Ogareff, a former colonel, was once demoted and exiled...
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Découvrez "Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine", le roman captivant de Jules Verne qui vous entraîne dans un tourbillon d'aventures exotiques et d'humour délicieux. Suivez les pas de Kin-Fo, un riche Chinois décidé à dépenser sa fortune avant de mourir, et embarquez pour un voyage palpitant à travers la Chine. Entre péripéties rocambolesques, rencontres surprenantes et rebondissements inattendus, ce récit vous fera rire, réfléchir...
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The Purchase of the North Pole is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1889. It is the third and last novel of the Baltimore Gun Club, first appearing in From the Earth to the Moon, and later in Around the Moon, featuring the same characters but set twenty years later.
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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...