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Questo libro appartiene a quel genere di romanzi di Verne che, più che libri di fantascienza,sono taccuini di viaggio. Una trama avventurosa (si parla di caccia alla tigre, di una vendetta all'ultimo sangue fra un indiano e un inglese) fa da trait d'union al vero protagonista del libro, che è il viaggio nellIndia del nord, partendo da Calcutta ed arrivando alle pendici dell'Himalaya. Il tutto a bordo di una fantastica casa a vapore a forma di elefante! La storia della sanguinosa insurrezione dei Cipay è il presupposto da cui si sviluppa la trama....

"Mathias Sandorf" est un roman d'aventures qui est dédié à titre posthume à Alexandre Dumas père, l'auteur du "Comte de Monte-Cristo" en 1844. Les deux romans ont des points communs, même s'ils sont bien différents : dans "Mathias Sandorf", le nationaliste hongrois éponyme, condamné à mort à la suite d'une tentative de coup d'État ratée, s'évade d'une prison autrichienne, devient riche et se venge des traîtres qui l'ont dénoncé.

In betting fellow members of the famous Reform Club half his fortune that he can circumnavigate the globe in just 80 days, Phileas Fogg embarks on the most famous race in literature. Accompanied by his hot-blooded valet Passepartout, Fogg must face snowbound passes, sweltering jungles, opium dens, Sioux attacks and an alluring Indian princess to win the wager. But can our intrepid adventurers complete this thrilling race and make it back in time?

Phileas Fogg, gentleman anglais, parie avec les membres de son club qu'il fera le tour de la terre en 80 jours. Et, aussitôt, le voilà parti accompagné de son domestique Jean, un Parisien, dit Passepartout. Il devra être revenu à Londres, pour gagner, le samedi 21 décembre 1872 à 20 heurs 45 minutes! Soupçonné d'être l'audacieux voleur de la Banque d'Angleterre, Phileas Fogg va être filé tout au long de ses pérégrinations par le détective Fix qui ne peut cependant pas l'arrêter, le mandat d'amener arrivant toujours trop tard.

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 Land are thrown overboard in the attack, only to find that the "monster" is actually a futuristic submarine, the Nautilus, commanded by a shadowy, mystical, preternaturally imposing man who calls himself Captain Nemo.

Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a wager set by his friends at the Reform Club.

In einem Antiquariat hat Professor Lidenbrock einen Fund gemacht: ein uraltes isländisches Buch, aus dessen Seiten auf altem Pergament eine verschlüsselte Botschaft herausflattert. Eine ungewöhnliche und phantastische Reise beginnt, auf der der Professor und sein Neffe viele ungewöhnliche Abenteuer erleben. Die Reise führt von Hamburg über Dänemark, nach Island, direkt in den Krater eines Vulkans hinein und geradewegs ... zum Mittelpunkt der Erde.

Jules Verne is considered to be an important author in France and most of Europe, where he has had a wide influence on the literary avant-garde and on surrealism. VOLUME 2: We now come to the second part of our journey under the sea. The first ended with the moving scene in the coral cemetery which left such a deep impression on my mind. Thus, in the midst of this great sea, Captain Nemo's life was passing, even to his grave, which he had prepared in one of its deepest abysses.

Levemanden Fileas Fogg indgår et væddemål om, hvorvidt det er muligt at rejse Jorden rundt på kun 80 dage. Med sig har han sin trofaste tjener Passepartout, og de to herrer får virkelig deres sag for, hvis Fogg skal vinde. Rejsen foregår til lands, til vands og på elefantryg, og vilde eventyr og overhængende farer truer Foggs sejr. Den franske forfatter Jules Verne (1828-1905) er ofte blevet kaldt science fiction-romanens forgænger.

Around the World in Eighty Days (French: Le Tour du Monde en Quatre-Vingts Jours) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (the approximate equivalent of £2 million in 2016) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works.

Phileas Fogg is a man of regular orderly days, down to the minute. His acquaintances know where he will be and when, with perfect regularity. Discussion in the Reform Club turns to an article concerning a theorised journey around the world in only 80 days. From this a gentleman's bet is placed, and there is nothing more important to a gentleman than a bet! Mr Fogg's life is thrown into turmoil as he commences the journey around the world.

Dvadcat' tysyach l'e pod vodoy (1870) - odin iz naibolee izvestnyh romanov populyarnogo francuzskogo pisatelya Zhyulya Verna - rasskazyvaet o neveroyatnom puteshestvii v morskih nedrah na udivitel'noy ehlektricheskoy podvodnoy lodke "Nautilus". Pered geroyami razvorachivayutsya chudesa Indiyskogo i Tihogo okeanov, yuzhnyh i severnyh morey. Oni vysazhivayutsya na Yuzhnyy polyus, puteshestvuyut po morskomu dnu, ohotyatsya v podvodnyh lesah i srazhayutsya so strashnymi predstavitelyami vodnoy stihii.

Mr. Phileas Fogg, master of precision, enters into the strangest wager ever made over the whist table--that he will circle the globe in 80 days. The news astounds Jean Passepartout, sometime wandering minstrel, bareback rider, funambulist, gymnast, and fireman, now turned valet to Mr. Fogg in the expectancy of a quiet and well-regulated life. For the next 80 days, their lives are anything but quiet or well regulated.

Set in 1872, Around the World in 80 Days tells the extraordinary and wonderful adventures of Phileas Fogg and his servant Passepartout, who set out to win a £20,000 bet to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.

Romanzo pubblicato nel 1867 e dedicato a tutti gli amanti delle avventure e delle esplorazioni geografiche. Seguendo alcune indicazioni di una richiesta di aiuto, trovata in una bottiglia, un gruppo di coraggiosi si pone in cerca del capitano Harry Grant, andando n cerca di mirabolanti avventure, che hanno come sfondo la Patagonia, l’Australia, e i feroci cannibali Maori della Nuova Zelanda, fino all’immancabile e sfolgorante lieto fine. Grandi descrizioni geografiche, il libro è avvincente e istruttivo. Adatto a tutti.

Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) is an acclaimed adventure novel by Jules Verne. It relates the adventures of Phileas Fogg and his French valet Passepartout as they attempt to circumnavigate the world in eighty days. Around the World in Eighty Days with its steam ships, boats, trains, elephant, and wind-powered sledge remains a classic more than 150 years later.

First published in the Forum in 1889, In the Year 2889 was published in France the next year. A humorous and insightful look into a future society, the novella is now believed to be chiefly if not entirely the work of Jules Verne's son, Michel Verne, albeit continuing the work of Jules Verne by echoing many of his much-visited themes and ideas.

Although published under the name of Jules Verne, “In the Year 2889” is now believed to be chiefly, if not entirely, the work of Jules' son, Michel Verne. In any event, many of the topics in the story echo Verne's ideas. A rather humorous look at the future.

Die Gruselkabinett Hörspiel Box 30 beinhaltet die Geschichten: "Ewige Jungend", "20,000 Meilen unter dem Meer (komplett)", "Die Insel des Dr.

Professor Arronax, sein Diener Conseil und der Harpunier Ned Land, die der Zufall in das Unterseeboot von Kapitän Nemo verschlagen hat, setzen mit diesem ihre Reise rund um die Welt fort. Trotz der einmaligen Naturwunder, die sie unter dem Meeresspiegel zu sehen bekommen, geben sie ihre Fluchtpläne nicht auf.