Jules Verne
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In this adaptation of Jules Verne's classic novel, The Children of Captain Grant, the entire cast of characters has been transformed into anthropomorphic animals! It begins with a message ― actually three water-damaged messages ― found in a bottle removed from the belly of a shark. Written in three different languages the messages reveal that the long-missing Captain Grant was shipwrecked and is being held hostage. The only clue from the messages...
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En el momento de soltar su globo un esforzado aeronauta se encuentra atacado por un loco que ha abordado en ese peligroso momento. Durante la lucha y negociación que sigue, el loco hace un resumen de los inicios de la aerostática para acabar proclamando su intención de morir en las mismas circunstancias que sus más apreciados héroes.
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Una expedición de socorro se hace a la vela para intentar rescatar a unos hombres que se perdieron en el mar en circunstancias heroicas. Equipados con abrigos de pieles y trineos tirados por perros, los personajes deberán, como indica el título de la novela, pasar el invierno atrapados en los hielos de Groenlandia ?
25) Maese Zacarias
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Maese Zacarías, inventor de la rueda dentada, pensaba haber conseguido dominar el Tiempo. Pero no solo el tiempo de sus artefactos mecánicos, sino el tiempo de la Vida misma. Y es que creía que ¡su alma estaba en los relojes que había fabricado!,
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Jules Verne, maître incontesté de la science-fiction, nous plonge dans le fantastique monde sous-marin de Capitaine Nemo. À bord du Nautilus, l'incroyable submersible tiré de l'imagination de l'auteur près d'un siècle avant son invention, Nemo et ses compagnons de voyage feront le tour du monde. En cette année 1866, une forte angoisse règne sur les océans. Un monstre marin effrayant a été signalé dans diverses mers par plusieurs navires....
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A fastidious English gentleman makes a remarkable wager. Fogg and his faithful servant, Passepartout, embark on a journey into a world filled with danger and beauty - from India, where the heroic travelers rescue a beautiful Raja's wife from ritual sacrifice, to the rugged American frontier. An angry Sioux tribe ambushes their train. Fogg's mission is complicated by an incredible case of mistaken identity that sends a detective in hot pursuit. Around...
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These literary masterpieces are made easy and interesting. This series features classic tales retold with color illustrations to introduce literature to struggling readers. Each 64-page softcover book retains key phrases and quotations from the original classics. When seaman were sailing only wooden ships, Captain Nemo was the master of his incredible, futuristic submarine, the Nautilus, which journeyed through many strange and adventurous voyages...
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Veinte Mil Leguas de Viaje Submarino - Clsicos Ilustrados Nmero 47 En lo ms profundo del mar, el Nautilus, un misterioso invasor marino, se embarca en una vorgine de aventuras... Un viaje elegido por el destino y capitaneado por una extraordinaria pero amargada mente. En la versin de los Clsicos Ilustrados de esta vanguardista obra de ciencia ficcin del siglo XIX, en la que el genial pero curioso Capitn Nemo ha diseado un gigantesco submarino con...
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These literary masterpieces are made easy and interesting. This series features classic tales retold with color illustrations to introduce literature to struggling readers. Each 64-page softcover book retains key phrases and quotations from the original classics. What is the mystery about this island Jules Verne wrote about? How are the men stranded on it able to survive? In this early science fiction thriller, the heroes use science and natural...
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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 always racing against the clock.
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Presents Jules Verne's classic novel in which a French professor and his two companions sail above and below the world's oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo, and includes historical context, explanatory notes, excerpts of criticism, discussion questions, and other study tools.
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"In one of Verne's supreme adventures, Professor Lidenbrock discovers a centuries-old document which, when decoded by his brilliant nephew Axel, offers instructions to the Earth's core. Accompanied by an Icelandic guide, they set off on a dangerous and exciting trek that begins with a descent into an extinct volcano. As the explorers travel through geologic time, they encounter a living past that holds the secrets to the origins of humanity"--
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In Jules Verne’s classic adventure tale, a hot air balloon is swept off course only to land on a faraway desert island
In the midst of the American Civil War, five prisoners hijack a hot air balloon to make their escape. Caught in the winds of a violent storm, the balloon is blown far, far away from its point of departure in Richmond, Virginia. When the craft crash-lands, its passengers find themselves castaways on an exotic island....
In the midst of the American Civil War, five prisoners hijack a hot air balloon to make their escape. Caught in the winds of a violent storm, the balloon is blown far, far away from its point of departure in Richmond, Virginia. When the craft crash-lands, its passengers find themselves castaways on an exotic island....
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French professor Pierre Aronnax and his servant join the Abraham Lincoln, an American frigate, on a mission to find and destroy a "sea-unicorn of colossal dimensions, armed not with a halberd, but with a real spur, as the armored frigates." The undersea monster is thought to be responsible for the disappearance of over 200 ships. When they encounter the "gigantic cetacean," it disables the Abraham Lincoln and knocks Professor Aronnax, his servant,...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea is a classic adventure story by the author known as the "Father of Science Fiction. " Professor Aronnax, his faithful servant Conseil and the Canadian harpooner, Ned Land set out on a hazardous voyage to rid the seas of the seas of a little-known and terrifying sea monster. Discovering that the monster is in fact the giant submarine "Nautilus, " they are soon captured by its mysterious commander, Captain
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