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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.
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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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The deep-sea exploits of secretive Captain Nemo, embarking on the world's first global vendetta.
When an unidentified "monster" threatens international shipping, French oceanographer Pierre Aronnax and his unflappable assistant Conseil join an expedition organized by the US Navy to hunt down and destroy the menace. After months of fruitless searching, they finally grapple with their quarry, but Aronnax, Conseil, and the brash Canadian harpooner Ned...
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The "man who invented the future," Verne created the prototype for modern science fiction. His prophetic 1870 adventure novel, featuring a bizarre underwater craft commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo, predated the submarine. The crowning achievement of Verne's literary career, the book influenced H. G. Wells and later generations of writers.
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The book tells the story of the quest for Captain Grant of the Britannia. After finding a bottle cast into the ocean by the captain himself after the Britannia is shipwrecked, Lord and Lady Glenarvan of Scotland contact Mary and Robert, the young daughter and son of Captain Grant, through an announcement in a newspaper. Moved by the children's condition, Lord and Lady Glenarvan decide to launch a rescue expedition. The main difficulty is that the...
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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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Here in one binding are both of Jules Verne's Captain Nemo novels. In 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea we meet the enigmatic Captain Nemo and The Nautilus. Even after many adventures and much derring-do Nemo's secrets remain his own, and at the end of the novel we are left with many mysteries concering this mysterious and tragic man. In The Mysterious Island we once again encounter Captain Nemo. The years have mellowed him some, and he reveals his surprising...
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„Children of Captain Grant" is one of the best novels of the outstanding French writer Jules Verne, a wonderful example of a classic work of youthful literature. From the book, the reader learns about the amazing adventures that occurred with the heroes of the novel during their extraordinary journeys in South America, Australia and other places where they find themselves in search of Captain Grant.
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Les aventures extraordinaires d'un emblématique capitaine, héros romantique en quête d'un apaisement qu'il poursuit sans jamais l'atteindre
Vingt mille lieues sous les mers est un roman d'aventures de Jules Verne, publié en 1870. Il est le sixième de la série des Voyages Extraordinaires; il fait suite aux Enfants du capitaine Grant et se complète par l'Île mystérieuse.
Un monstre marin de proportions gigantesques répand la terreur sur...
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Um dos mais aclamados livros de Júlio Verne, A ilha misteriosa foi publicado em 1874.
O livro conta a aventura e a luta pela sobrevivência de um grupo de homens que, após fugirem da guerra em um balão, acabam em uma ilha desconhecida e cheia de mistérios.
O grupo de náufragos tenta organizar a vida na ilha, enquanto lida com piratas e outros perigos e sonha com algum navio que os resgate. Para piorar a situação, a ilha está ameaçada por...
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An American frigate, tracking down a ship-sinking monster, faces not a living creature but an incredible invention - a fantastic submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo. Suddenly a devastating explosion leaves just three survivors, who find themselves prisoners inside Nemo's death ship on an underwater odyssey around the world from the pearl-laden waters of Ceylon to the icy dangers of the South Pole . . .as Captain Nemo, one of the greatest...
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Originally serialized from March 1869 through June 1870 in Pierre-Jules Hetzel's fortnightly periodical, the Magasin d'éducation et de récréation and wildly acclaimed on it's release, 20,000 Leagues under the Sea is perhaps Jules Verne most well known title.
The world is abuzz with tales of a giant mysterious marine animal, roaming the waterways of the worlds, a menace to shipping. The American Government sends out the Frigate "Abraham Lincoln"...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas is a classic science-fiction novel by French author Jules Verne. First serialized in 1870, the plot is straightforward. There is believed to be a monster terrorizing ships on the oceans of the world and an expedition is organized to hunt it and eradicate it from the seas. At the first encounter, marine biologist M. Arronax and his servant Conseil along with a Canadian harpooner (Ned Land) are washed overboard...
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"When Lord and Lady Glenarvan catch a shark during a sailing trip, they are surprised to find a message in a bottle within its belly, sent by Captain Grant of the shipwrecked Britannia. However, the water-damaged note is mostly unreadable, giving any would-be rescuers only a latitude and no longitude to work with. Eager to help the castaways, the couple takes it upon themselves to search for Grant with the help of Mary and Robert--Captain Grant's...
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"A stolen hot air balloon lands an unlikely crew on a mysterious island far from everything they know in this action-packed Jules Verne classic--now with an arresting new look! Five prisoners of war steal a hot air balloon and escape capture in Virginia during the American Civil War. They fly for several thousand miles before a storm forces them to crash land on an unknown island in the Pacific. There, the marooned men must work together to pool all...
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"When word about sightings of a sea monster spread, three men embark on a journey to find the creature. But when they get thrown overboard, they soon find themselves in the belly of the beast--the underwater vessel named the Nautilus, manned by Captain Nemo. Having discovered his secret submarine, the sailors are taken as Nemo's captives. The trio's expedition shifts to an entirely new adventure beneath the vast ocean with giant sea creatures, sunken...
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1866. Um medonho monstro marinho tem provocado o terror nos mares e causado sérios danos às ligações transatlânticas. Para tentar capturar o terrífico animal, é enviada uma expedição da qual faz parte o professor Pierre Aronnax, um eminente naturalista especializado em criaturas marinhas. Porém, para sua surpresa, o monstro não é outro senão o Naulitus, um submarino construído pelo enigmático capitão Nemo, que convida o professor e...
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