The Hunt for the Meteor. Edited by I.O. Evans
Author : Jules Verne
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Page : 190 pages
File Size : 26,16 MB
Release : 1965
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Author : Jules Verne
Publisher :
Page : 190 pages
File Size : 26,16 MB
Release : 1965
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Author : Jules Verne
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Page : 191 pages
File Size : 15,79 MB
Release : 1965
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Author : Jennifer Speake
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 3477 pages
File Size : 18,90 MB
Release : 2014-05-12
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1135456623
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 16,4 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780803296190
The announcement that a solid gold asteroid has fallen to earth creates a worldwide sensation. The discovery of this falling golden meteor and the race to find it form the core of this exciting tale from the grandfather of science fiction, Jules Verne. 23 illustrations.
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 25,60 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Sahara
ISBN : 9780819564658
First English edition of a classic Verne novel.
Author : British Museum. Dept. of Printed Books
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Page : 592 pages
File Size : 45,12 MB
Release : 1959
Category : English imprints
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Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 33,91 MB
Release : 2006-01-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0803296347
When a meteor of pure gold heads toward Earth, it generates competitive greed among amateur astronomers and havoc among nations fixated on the golden object's path.
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 11,76 MB
Release : 2013-09-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0819574589
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 infamous Dreyfus Affair. This Wesleyan edition brings together the first English translation with one of the first detailed critical analyses of the novel, and features all the illustrations from the original 1902 publication.
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Wesleyan University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 50,67 MB
Release : 2005-12-12
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0819574570
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 tale: exploration and discovery, humor and drama, dastardly villains and intrepid heroes, and a host of near-fatal encounters with crocodiles, jungle fever, Indians and outlaws — all set in a wonderfully exotic locale. The Mighty Orinoco also includes a unique twist that will appeal to feminists — readers will need to discover it for themselves. This Wesleyan edition features notes, and a critical introduction by renowned Verne scholar Walter James Miller, as well as reproductions of the illustrations from the original French edition. CONTRIBUTORS: Walter James Miller, Stanford Luce, Arthur B. Evans.
Author : Jules Verne
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Page : pages
File Size : 28,32 MB
Release : 1970-12-01
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ISBN : 9780685065624