Five Weeks in a Balloon
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher :
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 34,11 MB
Release : 1869
Category : Africa
ISBN :
The Twenty-One Balloons
Author : William Pene du Bois
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 34,87 MB
Release : 1986-05-06
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0140320970
Book Description
A Newbery Medal Winner Professor William Waterman Sherman intends to fly across the Pacific Ocean. But through a twist of fate, he lands on Krakatoa, and discovers a world of unimaginable wealth, eccentric inhabitants, and incredible balloon inventions.Winner of the 1948 Newbery Medal, this classic fantasy-adventure is now available in a handsome new edition. "William Pene du Bois combines his rich imagination, scientific tastes, and brilliant artistry to tell astory that has no age limit."—The Horn Book
Jules Verne
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 782 pages
File Size : 47,43 MB
Release : 2012-11-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1607108763
Book Description
Get cozy with the classics! Jules Verne collects some of the author’s best-known works in one volume. 2013 IBPA Benjamin Franklin Award Silver Finalist in Gift Books Legendary science fiction and adventure author Jules Verne is remembered for his fascinating stories of travel and excitement. With countless adaptations available, the titles of his works are familiar. But no joy can compare to reading the originals! This book features the African exploration of Five Weeks in a Balloon; the story of Captain Nemo and his submarine in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea; Around the World in Eighty Days, the famous story of an incredible expedition; and the classic Journey to the Center of the Earth, which takes readers into our world’s geological past. With an introduction by an expert on Verne’s life and writing, it’s an excellent introduction to the work of this well-loved author. Expand your home library--and your imagination--with Jules Verne!
The Ice Balloon
Author : Alec Wilkinson
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 46,20 MB
Release : 2013-01-08
Category : History
ISBN : 0307741869
Book Description
In 1897, at the height of the heroic age of Arctic exploration, the visionary Swedish explorer S. A. Andrée made a revolutionary attempt to discover the North Pole by flying over it in a hydrogen balloon. Thirty-three years later, his expedition diaries and papers would be discovered on the ice. Alec Wilkinson uses the explorer’s papers and contemporary sources to tell the full story of this ambitious voyage, while also showing how the late 19th century’s spirit of exploration and scientific discovery drove over 1,000 explorers to the unforgiving Arctic landscape. Suspenseful and haunting, Wilkinson captures Andrée’s remarkable adventure and illuminates the detail, beauty, and devastating conditions of traveling and dwelling on the ice.
Five Weeks in a Balloon Illustrated
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher :
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 37,59 MB
Release : 2020-09-11
Category :
ISBN :
Book Description
Five Weeks in a Balloon, or, A Journey of Discovery by Three Englishmen in Africa (French: Cinq semaines en ballon) is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1863. It is the first novel in which he perfected the "ingredients" of his later work, skillfully mixing a story line full of adventure and plot twists that keep the reader's interest through passages of technical, geographic, and historic description. The book gives readers a glimpse of the exploration of Africa, which was still not completely known to Europeans of the time, with explorers traveling all over the continent in search of its secrets.
The Extraordinary Journeys
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 450 pages
File Size : 29,62 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0192804650
Book Description
"First Mate Shandon receives a mysterious letter asking him to construct a reinforced steamship in Liverpool. As he heads out for Melville Bay and the Arctic labyrinth, a crewman reveals himself to be John Hatteras, and his lifelong obsession, the Pole. Despite experiencing appalling cold and hunger, the captain treks across the frozen wastes in search of fuel. Abandoned by his crew, Hatteras remains without resources at the coldest spot on earth. How can he find food and explore the Polar Sea? And what will he find at the top of the world?"--Back cover.
Warlord of Mars
Author : Edgar Rice Burroughs
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 28,94 MB
Release : 2009-10-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1775416674
Book Description
Warlord of Mars is the third novel in Burroughs' Barsoom series. The setting is an inhabited, dying Mars, where the different races fight over dwindling resources. It is a frontier world full of honor, glory and desperation; lost cities and ancient secrets provide the landscape for heroic adventures.
Seven Novels
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Incorporated
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,67 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781435122956
Book Description
Collecting Five Weeks in a Balloon, Around the World in Eighty Days, A Journey to the Center of the Earth, From the Earth to the Moon, Round the Moon, Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island, this title offers a compilation of seven of Jules Verne's Voyages.
Seven Novels
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher :
Page : 1196 pages
File Size : 35,51 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Adventure stories, French
ISBN : 9780760781234
Book Description
The mysterious island: The adventures of five Americans on an uncharted island in the South Pacific.
From The Earth To The Moon
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Independently Published
Page : 98 pages
File Size : 10,67 MB
Release : 2019-08-10
Category :
ISBN : 9781089439752
Book Description
One of the earliest science fantasy stories ever written, From the Earth to the Moon follows three wealthy members of a post-Civil War gun club who design and build an enormous columbiad -- and ride a spaceship fired from it all the way to the moon!
