Invasion Of The Sea is the first English edition of a novel written in 1904 by Jules Verne, best know for his classics "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" and "Around the World in 80 Days." Meticulously translated from the original French by Edward Baxter, Invasion of the Sea is an engaging ...
I have read about a dozen books by Jules Verne - and "Measuring the Meridian" is my least favorite. What is missing is Verne's sense of adventure and to some extent his ability to construct a flowing narrative.
The title "Measuring the Meridian" describes 90% of the what takes place in the ...
Take a journey on a giant raft with Joam Garral down 800 Leagues on the Amazon. Garral, a Brazilian, lives on a thriving fazenda (plantation) in the Peruvian frontier with his loving family. But, his daughter's imminent marriage to a Brazilian army surgeon compels him to return to his homeland to face the dark secrets of his past. Will his love and dedication to his family help him in his ...
Castaways on a barren island in the South Seas, Karl and Pieter Kip are rescued by the brig James Cook. After helping to quell an onboard mutiny, however, they suddenly find themselves accused and convicted of the captain's murder. In this story, one of his last Voyages Extraordinaires, Verne interweaves an exciting exploration of the South Pacific with a tale of judicial error reminiscent of the ...
There is probably neither in Europe nor anywhere else a scholar whose face is more universally known than that of Dr. Schwaryencrona- of Stockholm. His portrait appears on the millions of bottles with green seals; which are sent to the confines of the globe.' (Excerpt from Chapter 1)
After the cheerful, manly words of the captain, the Doctor felt the best thing to be done was to look their prospects fairly in the face, and know the exact state of things. Accordingly, leaving his companions, he stole away alone down to the scene of the explosion.
Jules Verne (February 8, 1828-March 24, 1905) was a French writer. He is best know for his science-fiction novels such as Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea (1870), Journey To The Center Of The Earth (1864), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). He was writing about space. underwater and air travel before air travel and submarines were actually invented. He is one the most translated ...
Verne's Helena hears of the Green Ray from a newspaper article. Delphine of French director Eric Rohmer's "Summer" hears friends discussing Verne's book. And so the book cannot help but be of interest to fans of Rohmer's eccenetric talkies. It is worth the read, but a few warnings might be in ...
Like most of M. Jules Verne's books, it is the story of a journey. Some acrobats wish to travel from California to their native France, and having no money they determine to go in their caravan northward to Bering's Straits, crossing on the ice, and make their way through Siberia into Europe. Jules Verne's travelers are generally successful: in spite of robbers, icebergs, and the Russian police; ...
+ Verne as prophet rather than novelist + Verne was a genius!
If you are a Jules Verne fan, this recently (1989) discovered novel, written at the beginning of Verne's career (1863), rejected by his publisher, and found in a locked safe by his great-grandson, is a must read.
Although Verne's later works (Journey to the Center of the Earth, Twenty Thousand ...
+ The First English Edition + Good--just be patient
From the 1870s, and for a quarter century, every new Verne novel had been issued in translation. Abruptly, in 1898, American and British publishers broke this tradition with The Mighty Orinoco (Le Superbe Orénoque), now available for the first time in English over a century later from Wesleyan ...
After her husband John has gone to sea and she loses her only child, Wat, San Diego resident Dolly Branican goes mad. When she recovers, four years later, she discovers that her husband's ship was lost at sea. As heir to a substantial fortune during her madness, Dolly uses these resources to finance the discovery of the whereabouts of her husband's ship, the Franklin, because she doesn't believe ...
The recent publication of the short story "In the Year 2889" (Wildside Press, 2006) is a welcome addition to the Jules Verne library. I read it first back in my early college days in the late sixties, and I have been hoping for a new edition of the text.
At 32 pages, it is a slim volume, but ...
charming tale of modern china in the mid 19th century
Jules Verne always had a warm spot for Americans and the Chinese. This picaresque tale of a young man of leisure who decides to end his life at the hands of his old tutor gives a picture of life in China in Verne's day. Character development was never Verne's strong point, and his work was often ...
A very typical Verne story - he likes to write about castaways. Not great, but quite unusual. The edition on sale would benefit from an introduction or some background on the genesis of this story. When was it written, etc. and where it fits in to the Verne oevre. Illustrations (in the woodcut ...
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