Jules Verne
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Brújula y la veleta volume 26
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Fonolibro se enorgullece en presentar el audiolibro La Vuelta al Mundo en 80 Dias de Julio Verne. ?Considerada una de las más apasionantes y divertidas aventuras de la ingeniosa pluma de Julio Verne?
En 1872, Phileas Fogg, un rico caballero inglés, obsesionado por la puntualidad y la exactitud, realiza una temeraria apuesta, arriesgando en ello, no sólo su fortuna, sino también su vida.
Acompañado por su atlético y espontáneo criado francés,...
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French naturalist Dr Aronnax embarks on an expedition to hunt down a sea monster, but discovers instead the Nautilus, a self-contained world built by its enigmatic captain. Together Nemo and Aronnax explore the underwater realms of the globe, undergo a transcendental experience amongst the ruins of Atlantis, and plant a black flag at the South Pole. Nemo's mission is finally revealed to be a violent one -- and his methods coldly efficient.
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First English edition of a classic Verne adventure, with a unique feminist twist.
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. The text contains all the ingredients of a classic Verne scientific-adventure...
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"A sea monster is terrorizing the ocean and you have been chosen to stop it. But your mission takes a strange twist when you are captured by Captain Nemo. Do you have what it takes to escape from the strange captain? Or will the ocean's unknown dangers lead to your doom? Step into this adventure and choose your path." -- p. [4] of cover.
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In its first English translation in more than 100 years, a story of a world in which energy shortages lead a group of Americans to devise a radical solution, for their own gain, which puts the whole earth at risk In one of his best-known books, From the Earth to the Moon, Jules Verne described how a group of men in the Gun Club of Baltimore used a giant cannon to send a spacecraft to the moon. Now, in this sequel,...
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"Ana Dakkar, a freshman at Harding-Pencroft Academy, a five-year high school that graduates the best marine scientists, naval warriors, navigators, and underwater explorers in the world, makes astounding discoveries about her heritage and puts her leadership skills to the test against deadly enemies from a rival school"--Publisher.
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First English edition of a classic Verne novel.
Jules Verne, celebrated French author of Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and Around the World in 80 Days, wrote over 60 novels collected in the popular series "Voyages Extraordinaires." A handful of these have never been translated into English, including Invasion of the Sea, written in 1904 when large-scale canal digging was very much a part of the political, economic, and military strategy of...
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Espasa juvenil. Clásicos volume 147
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Esta versión del audiolibro Cinco semanas en globo (la versión completa) es la más barata que también tiene audio de calidad superior. El audio fue editado especialmente para su placer en los Estados Unidos. El estudio usa un proceso tecnológico y trabajo artesano para crear una experiencia exquisita. ¡Es nuestro distinto placer presentarle nuestra versión de Cinco semanas en globo por Jules Verne, narrada por José Félix Rivas!
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In a lively discussion with Lord Kelvin, inventor Phileas Fogg states his belief that it's possible for someone to travel around the globe in a mere 80 days. Kelvin challenges him to prove it, and adds a wager: if Fogg can't circumnavigate the globe in 80 days, he'll have to give up inventing forever. Fogg and his crew of two take the challenge. They travel by train, boat, balloon, horseback, or any other means at their disposal. However, Fogg and...
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"London, 1872. One the day his world is turned upside down by a postcard from a lost love, Phileas Fogg is inspired by an article about the exciting advances in travel to take on an almost impossible wager -- to circumnavigate the globe in just eighty days. As a man who has spent the last twenty years in a comfortable leather armchair at The Reform Club, he will need all the resilience he can muster and of course would be nowhere without the assistance...
56) Round the moon
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Jules Verne's classic science fiction sequel to "From the Earth to the Moon", "Round the Moon" is a forward-looking examination of the possibilities of space travel. One of the first books to look at the challenges and adventures of space travel, "Round the Moon" starts off where "From the Earth to the Moon" left off. We follow the crew of the projectile built by the Baltimore Gun Club on a journey towards their intended destination. Will they make...
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Originally published as two separate books, Jules Verne's eerily prescient tale of mankind's first visit to the Moon is properly presented here in one complete volume. "From the Earth to the Moon" (first published in 1865) opens just after the close of the Civil War, the Baltimore Gun Club embarks on a massive project: to build a cannon and with it, launch a projectile to the Moon. Club President Impey Barbicane and armorer Captain Nicholl of Philadelphia...