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Scientist Pierre Aronnax and his trusty servant set sail to hunt a sea monster.

Axel and his uncle find a note that describes a path to Earth’s center! The men climb deep inside a volcano and discover amazing wonders. They also run into danger, which could trap them below the surface forever.

Jules Verne (1828-1905) was the first author to popularize the literary genre of science fiction. Written in 1898 and part of the author's famous series Voyages Extraordinaires, The Mighty Orinoco tells the story of a young man's search for his father along the then-uncharted Orinoco River of Venezuela.

In 1886, Professor Pierre Aronnax undertakes a United States government expedition in the Atlantic Ocean, plunging him into a watery world of breathtaking excitement and danger. When Professor Aronnax sets out to find and kill the sea monster that has been wrecking ships, he expects to remain on top of the briny main. But his new acquaintance, Captain Nemo, has other ideas. Soon the professor is witnessing a fantastic undersea life never before dreamt of—and dodging relentless pursuers.

"La Vuelta al Mundo en 80 Días" es una novela escrita por el autor francés Julio Verne y publicada en 1873. La historia sigue a Phileas Fogg, un caballero inglés meticuloso y aparentemente frío, quien hace una apuesta con los miembros del Reform Club de Londres. La apuesta consiste en que Fogg afirma que puede dar la vuelta al mundo en tan solo 80 días. Para cumplir con este desafío, Fogg parte en un viaje épico que lo llevará a través de diferentes continentes y enfrentará numerosos obstáculos.

The men who fired a projectile From the Earth to the Moon are back, this time with an even more outrageous idea. Convinced that there are massive coal deposits at the North Pole, they want to tilt the axis of the earth enough to melt the ice cap. They see fortunes to be made; the rest of the world sees devastation and destruction. It’s one of Verne’s strongest satires about corporate greed and the evils of unregulated industrialization.

From the Earth to the Moon and its sequel, Around the Moon, present Jules Vernes 19th-century vision of space travel. Because rockets at the time were seriously limited in range and payload, he launches his three travelers from a gigantic cannon instead. In a voyage with striking parallels to the Apollo space program, they leave in a conical projectile from South Florida, experience weightlessness, orbit the Moon, conduct experiments, and end up splashing down in the Pacific Ocean.

When the renowned and eccentric professor Otto Lidenbrock discovers a mysterious runic script in an Icelandic manuscript, he knows it’s important. But it’s only after his nephew, Axel, cracks the code that the two of them, along with their guide Hans, start on a treacherous, wonderful adventure that none of them will ever forget.

When French scientist Professor Aronnax agrees to investigate a series of attacks by a mysterious sea monster, he begins an incredible underwater journey, taking along his loyal assistant Conseil and master harpooner Ned. They eventually join Captain Nemo and traverse a distance of thousands of leagues throughout many seas, finding exotic settings, surprise encounters, and unforeseen dangers in their epic adventure, a tour-de-force of imagination.

A myth-like feeling is engendered by dining in Le Jules Verne restaurant in the Eiffel Tower in Paris. It helps stir an appetite for sensational adventures. In this book, Verne used first person narration by top-notch fictional scholar, Professor Aronnax, who is aided by his servant Conseil. They voyage on the Nautilus submarine of Captain Nemo, a man with feelings of omnipotence and obsession for power.

När skeppet Abraham Lincoln lämnar hamnen i New York är besättningen övertygad om att de är på jakt efter en jättelik narval. Professor Aronnax, hans trogne följeslagare Conseil och harpunernas konung Ned Land är en del av det modiga laget som ska fälla det stora vidundret. Men ödet har andra planer för dem. Efter en dramatisk drabbning hamnar de tre männen i havet. Lyckligtvis räddas de av kapten Nemo och tas ombord på det märkliga undervattensfartyget Nautilus. Nu tar äventyret en ny och oväntad vändning.

Journey to the Center of the Earth is one of Jules Verne's first novels and remains one of his most audacious and imaginative. This audiobook uses the translation published anonymously by Routledge in 1876, recently identified as the work of the translator Jessie Campbell.

The year is 1866; the American Civil War is at its height. Five prisoners of war hatch an audacious plan to escape their camp by balloon. After a perilous 6,000-mile journey in a fierce storm, they are ‘shipwrecked’ on an unknown Pacific island. What follows is a thrilling tale of resourcefulness, courage and suspense. Together with our heroes we learn to hunt, to make weapons and pottery, to calculate our position by the sun, to extract iron and even to make explosives from the island’s remarkable natural resources.

The Mysterious Island was published in 1874, and it is one of Verne's longest novels. The plot depicts a group of men who have become castaways stranded on an island in the Pacific during the American Civil War. The novel describes their attempts not only to survive but also, with the aid of the scientific and technological know-how, to rebuild their world from the meager resources of the island. At the end, however, it is realized that Captain Nemo, from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, has secretly been helping the settlers.

Mysterious Phileas Fogg is a man of the most repetitious and punctual habit—with no apparent sense of adventure whatsoever—he gambles his considerable fortune that he can complete a journey around the world in just 80 days... immediately after a newspaper calculates the feat as just barely possible.

Quiquendone is a small town in West Flanders, whose citizens are the wisest, most sociable and hospitable people. The town’s mayor, Van Tricasse, claims that the one if a person dies without having decided anything in his life then he has attained perfection. One day, Dr. Ox comes to the mayor with an offer. He wants to build a gas lightning system, at no cost for the city. However, Ox's intentions are completely different and this seemingly noble deed is just a facade. Will Van Tricasse accept the proposal? And what is Dr.

Despite his wealth, the rich British gentleman Phileas Fogg lives a simple and humble life. He is a member of the Reform Club, which is one of London’s best gentleman's club. One day at the club, Fogg gets involved in an argument. The gentlemen disagree whether it is possible to travel all the way around the globe in only 80 days. Fogg bets that 80 days is enough and accepts a wager of pound20,000 to complete the journey himself within 80 days.

Pierre Aronnax is a famous marine biologist, who works together with his manservant Conseil and harpoonist Ned Land. The three brave men are tirelessly hunting a mysterious sea monster in the dangerous sea waters. But a great danger loom over them. Why are the three sailors chasing the monster? Why do they want to kill it at any cost? Will they succeed or will the creature attack and kill them? Find out all the answers in Jules Verne’s classic science fiction and adventure novel "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea" from 1870. B. J.

En spændende og begivenhedsrig roman, hvor handlingen aldrig står stille. En flok drenge er overladt til sig selv på en øde ø, og der går ikke længe, før tilværelsen bliver en kamp og drengenes forskelligheder får konflikterne til at spidse til.

När ett mystiskt havsodjur sprider skräck över världshaven kallas professor Aronnax, hans tjänare Conseil och harpuneraren Ned Land in för att fälla vidundret. Men efter en dramatisk kollision kastas männen överbord och räddas av den gåtfulle kapten Nemo som tar dem ombord på sin hemliga ubåt Nautilus.