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A professor, his nephew, and a guide travel down a lava tube in Iceland and encounter prehistoric animals during their dangerous adventure. They eventually reemerge from the Italian volcano, Stromboli. This audio classic novel has been carefully abridged and adapted into 10 short, easy to understand chapters. This format enables listeners of all ages and English language abilities to understand and enjoy the story. This adventure tale is appropriate for children and adults.

The Underground City is a novel about the fortunes of a mining community at Aberfoyle, Scotland. Miner James Starr, after receiving a letter from an old friend, leaves for the Aberfoyle mine. Although believed to be mined out a decade earlier, James Starr finds a mine overman, Simon Ford, along with his family living deep inside the mine. Simon Ford has found a large vein of coal in the mine but the characters must deal with mysterious and unexplainable happenings in and around the mine.

The members of a club decide to raise money and build a projectile that can land on the moon. Three people climb into the rocket and proceed to the moon. This audio classic novel has been carefully abridged and adapted into 10 short, easy-to-understand chapters. This format enables listeners of all ages and English language abilities to understand and enjoy the story. Composition includes original custom background music. This adventure tale is appropriate for children and adults.

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.

"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.

Maailman ympäri 80 päivässä on Jules Vernen tunnetuin kirja täynnä huumoria, fantasiaa ja draamaa. Eräällä Lontoon klubeista lyödään herrasmiesten kesken vetoa siitä, onko 1870-luvulla mahdollista matkustaa maailman ympäri 80 päivän aikana. Tunnettu, kaavoihinkangistunut herrasmies Phileas Fogg ottaa vastaan haasteen, laittaa peliin koko omaisuutensa ja aloittaa pelottoman matkansa yhdessä ranskalaisen palvelijansa, Passepartout‘n, kanssa. Näin alkaa kaksikon mahtava voimannäyte läpi maailman eksoottisimpien kolkkien.

At the Weldon Institute in Philadelphia, a mob of zealous balloon enthusiasts plans to conquer the sky in a state-of-the-art dirigible. When a stranger, the mysterious Robur, declares that the future belongs not to balloons but to heavier-than-air flying machines, the Institute scornfully dismisses the idea. But Robur demands vengeance—and has a unique flying machine that will allow him to take it.

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?

An adventurous geology professor chances upon a manuscript in which a 16th-century explorer claims to have found a route to the earth's core. Professor Lidenbrock can't resist the opportunity to investigate, and with his nephew Axel, he sets off across Iceland in the company of Hans Bjelke, a native guide. The expedition descends into an extinct volcano toward a sunless sea, where they encounter a subterranean world of luminous rocks, antediluvian forests, and fantastic marine life — a living past that holds the secrets to the origins of human existence.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is a classic science fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne. Jules Verne's classic science fiction story 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea tells the great tale of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus. In 1866 a strange and unknown sea monster is sighted by ships and an ocean liner is attacked. An expedition prepares in New York, to find and destroy the menacing creature. The 20,000 of the title refers to an overall distance traveled under the sea, rather than an impossible measure of descent.

"The Mutineers of the Bounty" is a short story by Jules Verne, part of the series The Extraordinary Voyages. It is based on a true story a mutiny that occured on the Royal Navy vessel HMS Bounty in 1789. The ship had been sent to Tahiti, and the relations between Captain William Bligh and his crew quickly deteriorated, leading to increasingly harsh punishments and abuse. A cabal formed between the men, and one night, they overpowered the captain, seized the ship, and sent him and 18 of his loyalists out at sea to die.

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.

In the Year 2889 by Jules Verne is a diary of the observations of Fritz Napoleon Smith, the editor of an influential futuristic newspaper. It is an action-packed tale of technological advances and science fiction scenarios. Some of the predictions were remarkably accurate.

Tras el término de la Guerra de Secesión, varios miembros del Gun-Club (dedicado a la confección de armas de guerra) se encuentran sin trabajo y se ponen manos a la obra con la construcción del mayor cañón del mundo jamás creado.Quieren apuntar a la Luna, destruirla, por supuesto, y conseguir así la popularidad y disfrutar de la gloria de ser los padres del ingenio.Un arriesgado aventurero los disuade de la idea, y propone cambiar la bala de cañón por un proyectil cilíndrico hueco donde puedan viajar algunos hombres. La idea es aceptada con gran revuelo y los hombres se preparan para el viaje.

Phileas Fogg, un flemático inglés, ha apostado su fortuna a que dará la vuelta al mundo en 80 días, y empleará todos los medios de locomoción a su alcance: trenes, barcos, coches, y hasta un elefante y un trineo. Pero esta vuelta al mundo, en la que se combinan el humor, la aventura, el heroísmo y la típica abnegación de los personajes vernianos, reserva al lector otra sorpresa: la apuesta que a Fogg le hace perder el policía Fix, se la hará ganar impensadamente el sol.Reseña del libro http://bit.

"De la Terre à la Lune" et "Autour de la Lune" sont désormais sortis de leur cadre premier de "récits extraordinaires" et de science-fiction, pour faire figure d'ouvrages prophétiques. Entraînant d'autres chimères et d'autres rêves (tel le fameux film de Méliès le "Voyage dans la Lune" de 1902), ils ont permis aux utopies de devenir des réalités. Aujourd'hui leur pouvoir d'évocation, cette poésie digne d'un rêve éveillé, nous pousse toujours plus loin vers le territoire d'autres aventures inespérées.

Phileas Fogg schließt in seinem Herrenclub eine Wette ab, dass er innerhalb von 80 Tagen um die Welt reisen kann; Belohnung: 20.000 Pfund...

Le docteur Fergusson, son ami Dick Kennedy et le domestique tentent de traverser l'Afrique à bord du ballon : le Victoria.

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.

Im Jahre 1872 gibt es eine Neuigkeit, die um die Welt geht: Der Exzentriker Phileas Fogg wettet in seinem Londoner Club, dass es unter günstigsten Umständen und Ausnutzung aller zur Verfügung stehenden Verkehrsmittel eine Möglichkeit gibt, die Erde in 80 Tagen zu umrunden. Mit dabei ist sein gerade eingestellter Diener Passepartout. Dieser wollte eigentlich die Sesshaftigkeit und Stetigkeit eines englischen Gentleman kennenlernen. Weit gefehlt: Eine wilde Jagd quer um den Globus beginnt.