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A French string quartet traveling from San Francisco to their next engagement in San Diego, is diverted to Standard Island. Standard Island is an immense man-made island designed to travel the waters of the Pacific Ocean. The wealth of residents of the island can only be measured in millions. The quartet is hired to play a number of concerts for the residents during their tour of the islands (Sandwich, Cook, Society, etc.) of the South Pacific...

The English at the North Pole was originally published in 1864, being begun even before Verne's Journey to the Center of the Earth. This vigorous Arctic tale was used to found and introduce a "Magazine of Adventure, "which was continued for some years. The book contains an accurate picture of Arctic life and of the Arctic geography known to the world of 1864. The account of the Franklin expedition and of the persistent and heroic search for it...

Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Verne's prophetic novel of man's race to the stars is a classic adventure tale enlivened by broad satire and scientific acumen. When the members of the elite Baltimore Gun Club find themselves lacking any urgent assignments at the close of the Civil War, their president, Impey Barbicane, proposes that they build a gun big enough to launch a rocket to the moon. But when...

Keraban is determined not to pay the tax required to cross the Bosphorus by boat, so he journeys by land around the Black Sea. There is a fundamental mistake in dividing Verne's works into science fiction vs. non-science fiction -- in Verne's work there is an all-encompassing vision of science, progress, society and political struggles, which it is not convenient to compartmentalize.

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Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading. Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers offer teenage and adult learners a huge range of titles, all featuring carefully graded language to make them accessible to learners of all abilities. Through the imagination of some of the world's greatest authors, the English language comes to life...

Pearson English Readers bring language learning to life through the joy of reading. Well-written stories entertain us, make us think, and keep our interest page after page. Pearson English Readers offer teenage and adult learners a huge range of titles, all featuring carefully graded language to make them accessible to learners of all abilities. Through the imagination of some of the world's greatest authors, the English language comes to life...

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Verne's classic novel of global voyaging One night in the reform club, Phileas Fogg bets his companions that he can travel across the globe in just eighty days. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, he immediately sets off for Dover with his astonished valet Passepartout. Passing through exotic lands and dangerous locations, they seize whatever transportation is at hand - whether train or elephant - overcoming set-backs and ...

Phileas Fogg hat seinen Freunden eine für seine Zeit abenteuerliche Wette angeboten: Gelingt es ihm nicht, in 80 Tagen einmal um die Welt zu reisen, verliert er sein gesamtes Vermögen. Selbstverständlich gibt es reguläre Wasser- und Landverbindungen, die eine Reise um die Erde möglich machen. Aber in 80 Tagen?

Professor Lidenbrock ist einer der angesehensten Geologen der Welt. Der etwas kauzige Experte in Sachen Steine und Mineralien hat in einem alten Buch eine rätselhafte Nachricht gefunden, die einen Weg ins Erdinnere weist. Durch ein Kraterloch steigen Lidenbrock und sein Neffe Axel hinab in die unterirdische Welt. Eine abenteuerliche Reise, die sie in die frühen Epochen der Erdgeschichte führt.

Die ebenso abenteuerliche wie folgenreiche Geschichte vom stolzen Kapitän Nemo und seiner 'Nautilus', dem ersten U-Boot der Welt. Der Konstrukteur der Tauchkugel, William Beebe, bekannte, Jules Verne sei der Vater des Gedankens gewesen. Simon Lake, der U-Boot-Erbauer, sagte von seiner Schöpfung, sie sei "Stück für Stück die 'Nautilus'". Und 'Nautilus' nannten die Amerikaner ihr erstes Atom-U-Boot, das Kapitän Nemos Reise unterm Packeis zum Pol...

Jules Verne was born on February 8, 1828, in the city of Nantes, France . He is best known for his novels A Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Mysterious Island and Around the World in Eighty Days. Verne is often referred to as the 'Father of science fiction' because he wrote about space, air and underwater travel before aeroplanes, spacecrafts and submarines were invented. He died in 1905.

Atemberaubende Abenteuer, rasante Actionszenen und urkomische Zwischenfälle - ein Riesenspaß für die ganze Familie!Der exzentrische Londoner Erfinder Phileas Fogg (Steve Coogan) hat die Geheimnisse des Fliegens, der Elektrizität und sogar des Inline-Skatens entschlüsselt, doch die wissenschaftliche Fachwelt hält ihn lediglich für einen verschrobenen Spinner. Um endlich deren Anerkennung zu gewinnen geht Fogg mit Lord Kelvin (Jim Broadbent), de...