Jules Verne

Retells the adventures of a French professor and his two companions as they sail above and below the world's oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.

An adaptation for a young audience of the nineteenth-century tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and the undersea world.

La aventura comienza cuando Phileas Fogg, un inglés aristocrático del siglo XIX, apuesta una fortuna irresistible a que puede dar la vuelta al mundo en 80 días. Así, la novela relata el viaje de Fogg y su ayudante francés, Jean Passepartout, y abarca las peripecias y un sinfín de problemas y contratiempos que tienen que afrontar. El mayor obstáculo es el detective inglés Fix, que los persigue porque tiene la convicción de que Fogg es el ladrón...

But strange as the journey may be, it's nowhere near as strange as what they will find waiting at its end. One of the lesser known novels by Jules Verne, but certainly a novel that is worth reading, An Antarctic Mystery or The Sphinx of the Ice Fields is a fictional travelogue that describes the narrator's adventures as he travels from Kerguelen Islands, a group of islands in the Indian Ocean, towards the South Pole. The novel is the account of the...

Presents an illustrated version of the story of five Union prisoners of war who escape from a Confederate prison camp in a hot-air balloon, only to crash land on an unknown island where they must learn to survive on their own.

On ne doit pas négliger ce roman souterrain peut-être moins célèbre que les aventures sous-marines de ##Vingt mille lieues sous les mers##. Ce thème de la terre creuse sera souvent repris et Verne demeure à ce jour l'un de ceux qui l'ont le mieux traité et cela, dès son deuxième roman (1864). Cette édition illustrée est accompagnée de 32 pages de supplément pédagogique. [SDM]

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon is a unique addition to Jules Verne's beloved adventure series, Voyages Extraordinaire, as it is among the few Verne novels that does not include elements of science fiction. Instead, Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon combines the adventure genre with a murder mystery. After being falsely accused of a crime, Joam Garral was forced to flee Brazil. Now, many years later, he is living on a thriving Peruvian plantation...

The Clyde was the first river whose waters were lashed into foam by a steam-boat. It was in 1812 when the steamer called the Comet ran between Glasgow and Greenock, at the speed of six miles an hour. Since that time more than a million of steamers or packet-boats have plied this Scotch river, and the inhabitants of Glasgow must be as familiar as any people with the wonders of steam navigation. However, on the 3rd of December, 1862, an immense crowd,...

Durante la guerra civil estadounidense, cinco prisioneros de guerra huyeron de Richmond, Virginia, secuestrando un globo aerostático. Después de quedar cinco días suspendidos en el cielo a causa de un huracán, caen en la playa de una isla volcánica desconocida en el Pacífico. Los cinco compañeros no tienen nada salvo su ingenio para sobrevivir en una isla que muy pronto se mostrará llena de secretos, misterios y enigmas..

A mitad del siglo XIX, el mar deja de ser seguro para la navegación. Se han perdido numerosos barcos, sin que exista una clara explicación. Muchos creen que se trata de un monstruo marino, una especie de ballena con un gran cuerno afilado en su frente. Finalmente, se organiza desde los Estados Unidos una expedición, cuya misión consistirá en desvelar el secreto de estos hundimientos. A bordo viaja un naturalista, el profesor Aronnax, con su ayudante...