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Round the Moon is Jules Verne's sequel to From the Earth to the Moon. Having been fired out of the giant Columbiad space gun, the Baltimore Gun Club's bullet-shaped projectile and its three passengers, Barbicane, Nicholl and Michel Ardan, begins the five-day trip to the moon. A few minutes into the journey, a small, bright asteroid passes within a few hundred yards of them, but luckily does not collide with the projectile. The asteroid had been captured by the Earth's gravity and had become a second moon. The three travelers undergo a series of adventures and misadventures during the rest of the journey.

Journey to the Center of the Earth (1877) a classic science fiction novel by Jules Verne (published in the original French as Voyage au centre de la Terre in 1864). The story involves a professor who leads his nephew and hired guide down a volcano in Iceland to the "center of the Earth". They encounter many adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards, eventually coming to the surface again in southern Italy.

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.

From the Earth to the Moon is a science fiction adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1865. It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbiad space gun and launch three people — the Gun Club's president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet — in a projectile with the goal of a Moon landing. Five years later, Verne wrote a sequel called Around the Moon.

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.

A century before Jacques Cousteau, Jules Verne took readers for a whirlwind journey beneath the sea in the submarine Nautilus. Accompany brilliant scientist, Pierre Aronnax; his faithful servant, Conseil; bold mariner, Ned Land; and mysterious Captain Nemo as they walk on the ocean floor, journey beneath polar ice, and fight for their lives against sharks, giant squid, and one another. Verne's famous gift for prophesying future events still startles us throughout this electrifying voyage, adapted and narrated by Jim Weiss. Come aboard!

Jaké tajemství skrývá hrad v Sedmihradsku? Odhalí hrabě Telek tajemství, jímž je opředen hrad v karpatské vesnici? Je obraz jeho mrtvé lásky, pěvkyně Stilly, jen přeludem? Román je poctou lidské vynalézavosti. Hrabě Franz Telek propadne kouzlu krásné operní pěvkyně Stilly. Ta však při představení náhle umírá a hraběti málem pukne srdce. Stopy jeho lásky ho zavedou do karpatské vesnice Verst, kde stojí hrad opředený tajemstvím.

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.

„Stoupáme, nebo klesáme?“ „Něco horšího, pane Smithi! Padáme!“ Slova, která zná každý čtenář verneovek. Přes okraj koše letí vše, co něco váží, přesto jsou všechny pokusy zastavit sestup marné. Z vojáků severoamerické Unie, kterým se podařilo uprchnout ze zajetí v balonu, se rázem stávají trosečníci. Pětice, která se po nedobrovolném přistání na neznámém ostrově snaží najít všemožné prostředky k přežití, zjistí, že jejich útočiště skrývá i nejedno tajemství. Největší z nich se tají v hlubinách ostrova, v místech, která dokázal vypátrat jen ten, kdo prozkoumal hlubiny oceánů. Kapitán Nemo.

Члены Пушечного клуба, когда-то совершившие полет на Луну (романы "С Земли на Луну прямым путем за 97 часов 20 минут" и "Вокруг Луны") теперь приобретают необследованную территорию Арктики, где, как они предполагают, есть залежи угля. Чтобы добраться до них, члены клуба намерены повернуть земную ось и тем самым растопить полярные льды, не думая о том, какими бедствиями это обернется для человечества.

"Around the World in Eighty Days" (French: "Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours") is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. 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 (£2,242,900 in 2019) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works.

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.

Laugh at the ironic jibes and the bumbling Detective Fix, gasp at the high adventure and perilous misadventures, and feel the thrill of haste and ingenuity, but no longer wince at badly aged language and harmful stereotypes. This gentle modernization changes only as much as necessary, retaining everything that has made this novel an immortal classic.

En un atrevido salto de curiosidad científica, el profesor Otto Lidenbrock descifra un manuscrito antiguo que contiene la clave de un descubrimiento asombroso: un pasaje que conduce a las profundidades del núcleo de la Tierra. Guiados por una curiosidad insaciable y una sed de conocimiento, Lidenbrock, su sobrino Axel y su intrépido guía Hans se adentran en profundidades inexploradas, dejando atrás el mundo que conocen para descubrir los misterios que se esconden debajo.

Ein Meteor, aus reinem Gold, nähert sich der Erde. Ein Wettrennen aller Staaten und Mächte nach diesem Wertobjekt setzt ein. Privatgenie Xirdal aber hält den Trumpf in der Hand: er konstruiert einen Apparat, mit dem er den Meteor lenken kann. Und er lenkt ihn auf ein zuvor gekauftes Stückchen Grönland. Truppen rücken an, gelenkt von der Macht und Goldgier ihrer Befehlshaber. Ein wahrer Gelehrter wie Xirdal aber hängt nicht am Goldstandard, und deshalb schafft er den tonnenschweren Zankapfel wieder aus der Welt.

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.

In der Nähe des Kap Hoorn am südlichen Ende von Südamerika befindet sich auf der argentinischen Insel Isla de los Estados (Staateninsel) ein Leuchtturm. Dieser wird von einer dreiköpfigen Besatzung betrieben, die im Vierteljahresrhythmus ausgewechselt wird. Die Insel ist darüber hinaus - was die Leuchtturmmannschaft nicht weiß - auch ein Unterschlupf von dort gestrandeten Seeräubern. Ihnen ist die Wachmannschaft des Leuchtturmes ein Dorn im Auge.

Ein wichtiges Telegramm muss von Moskau nach Sibirien - und überbringen soll es der junge Offizier Michael Strogoff. Er soll den Bruder des Zaren vor dem Verräter Iwan Ogareff warnen. Getarnt als Tuchhändler begibt sich Strogoff auf eine lange und gefährliche Reise, die ihn in die Weiten des russischen Zarenreichs führt. Wenn es nach dem Vater von Jules Verne gegangen wäre, hätte es diesen Roman von 1876 nie gegeben. Doch statt die väterliche Anwaltskanzlei zu übernehmen, wurde Jules Verne lieber Schriftsteller.