Jules Verne
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English
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"Jules Verne's pioneering classic tells the story of the distinguished but eccentric Professor Lidenbrock, who finds a scrap of parchment in an old manuscript. A cipher, written in runes, tells of an entrance to another world - a world hidden beneath our own. So with his nephew reluctantly in tow, the Professor follows this cryptic clue down into a dormant volcano, and the further they descend, the more extraordinary the discoveries and creatures...
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English
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New, superbly translated omnibus of five of Jules Verne's most renown stories.
"One of the best storytellers who ever lived."-Arthur C. Clarke
In one dazzling decade, French novelist Jules Verne took readers places they'd never gone before...the age of dinosaurs...the undersea realm of Atlantis...the craters and crevices of the moon...and a whirlwind aerial tour of the planet earth!
Though he penned his unforgettable yarns in French, Verne plunked...
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English
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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,...
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Series
Castor poche volume 539
Publisher
Flammarion
Pub. Date
©1996
Physical Desc
363 pages ; 17 cm
Language
Français
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5) The mysterious island: containing "Dropped from the clouds", "Abandoned", "The secret of the island"
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Publisher
John W. Lovell
Pub. Date
[date of publication not identified]
Physical Desc
656 pages frontispiece, illustrations 19 cm
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English
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Wildside Press
Pub. Date
©2003
Physical Desc
124 pages ; 24 cm
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English
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"When the Morning Post writes about the legendary Green Ray's effects on the mind and soul, Helena Campbell vows to experience it for herself, postponing the wedding being forced upon her against her will. Together with her uncles, Sam and Sib Melville, she sets off on what becomes a near-epic quest."--Jacket.
7) The golden volcano =: Le volcan d'or : the first English translation of Verne's original manuscript
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University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
©2008
Physical Desc
xvi, 340 pages ; 23 cm.
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English
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Two Canadian cousins unexpectedly bequeathed a mining claim in the Klondike encounter disease, disaster, extremes of weather, and human nature twisted by a passion for gold. A deathbed confidence sends the two searching for afabulous gold-filled volcano on the shore of the Arctic Ocean.
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English
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Rum, a sailing ship, and a dare… …What could go wrong? Edgar Allan Poe's only complete novel, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket is one of the first adventure stories set in and around the Antarctic, which at the time was a place of mystery and the unknown. Pym takes us on an adventure across the seas to uncharted southern lands that are fraught with danger. With shipwrecks, murder, mutiny, and, yes, cannibalism, this tale has it...
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Everyman's library volume no. 351
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
xliv, 688 pages ; 22 cm.
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English
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CLASSIC FICTION. In "Journey to the Centre of the Earth", an obsessive German professor and his nephew travel towards the earth's core in the steps of a medieval explorer beneath an Icelandic volcano where they discover a lost world. "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" is famous for its portrayal of the Byronic Captain Nemo and his submarine, the Nautilus, in which he explores the ocean while wreaking vengeance on mankind for their wickedness....
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Gloria Mundi
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st ed.
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379 p. ; 25 cm.
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English
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A message in a bottle relays an urgent plea from the long-missing Captain Grant. His ship, the Britannia, has sunk. He is alive but is being held hostage. Captain Grant's children, Mary and Robert, along with their friend and benefactor Lord Glenervan launch a rescue expedition. But where do they begin their search? The original SOS message written in three languages is partially destroyed by sea water. The remaining fragments can be interpreted several...
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Camelot Editora
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
144 pages : illustration ; 23 cm
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Portuguese
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One night in the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at hand - whether train or elephant - overcoming set-backs and always racing against the clock.