Jules Verne
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"The Blockade Runners" is a 1865 short story by French novelist Jules Verne. Set during the American Civil War, the story follows James Playfair, a British merchant captain who seeks to break the Union blockade of Charleston harbor, South Carolina in order trade for cotton. Jules Gabriel Verne (8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, playwright, and poet, generally considered a major literary figure in Europe. "The Father of Science...
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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.
85) From the Earth to the Moon: Direct in Ninety-seven House and Twenty Minutes: And a Trip Around It
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Scarcely more than a century after Jules Verne published one of the most enduring and captivating novels of the nineteenth century in 1865-From the Earth to the Moon-Apollo 8 circled the moon on Christmas Eve in 1968 carrying the first human beings to fly around another celestial body. With uncanny futuristic vision, Verne had not only anticipated that the launch would take place from Florida, but also foresaw a three man crew traveling in a capsule...
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DigiCat presents to you this unique and meticulously edited Jules Verne collection: Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870) Around the World in Eighty Days (1872) The Mysterious Island (1875) Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) From the Earth to the Moon (1865) Around the Moon (1869) Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar (1876) In Search of the Castaways or, The Children of Captain Grant (1868) Adrift in Pacific or, Two Years' Vacation...
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The Blockade Runners (French: Les forceurs de blocus) is an 1865 novella by Jules Verne. In 1871 it was published in single volume together with novel A Floating City as a part of the Voyages Extraordinaires series (The Extraordinary Voyages). An English translation was published in 1874. The American Civil War plot centers on the exploits of a British merchant captain named James Playfair who must break the Union blockade of Charleston harbor in...
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Nine students from London's Antillean School receive travel scholarships to visit their island homelands in the Caribbean. Accompanied by their eccentric Latin professor, they set sail on what they expect to be a thrilling educational voyage. Little do they realize that, prior to their arrival on board, their ship had been hijacked by escaped convicts who murdered its original captain and crew. This is the only novel by the legendary Jules Verne that...
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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...
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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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DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "A Voyage in a Balloon (1852)" by Jules Verne. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
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By tradition of one of London schools, eight scholarship holders were awarded with a travel throughout the world. This time benefactress assigned a trip to the Antilles. At first, pupils who dreamed about Africa, India and Australia a bit disappointed. However, the adventures that came their way compensated all the imaginable impressions.
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First English edition of a classic Verne novel.
Jules Verne, celebrated French author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in 80 Days, wrote over 60 novels collected in the popular series "Voyages Extraordinaires." A handful of these have never been translated into English, including Invasion of the Sea, written in 1904 when large-scale canal digging was very much a part of the political, economic, and military strategy of...