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Just beyond me on the rocky floor of the volcanic crater was the gaping vertical shaft which marked the starting point of our journey.

Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen is a Jules Verne novel published in 1878. Dick Sand is a fifteen-year-old boy that serves on the schooner Pilgrim, a whaler that normally voyages across the Pacific in their efforts to find targets. It deals primarily with the issue of slavery, and the African slave trade by other Africans in particular. Several adaptations were made, two Soviet and one Franco-Spanish.

Michael Strogoff: The Courier of the Czar is a novel written by Jules Verne in 1876. Critics, including Leonard S. Davidow, consider it one of Verne's best books. Davidow wrote, "Jules Verne has written no better book than this, in fact it is deservedly ranked as one of the most thrilling tales ever written." Unlike some of Verne's other novels, it is not science fiction, but a scientific phenomenon (Leidenfrost effect) is a plot device. The book was later adapted to a play, by Verne himself and Adolphe d'Ennery. Incidental music to the play was written by Alexandre Artus in 1880. The book has been adapted several times for films, television and cartoon series.

Journey to the Center of the Earth is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the center of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans descend into the Icelandic volcano Snæfellsjökull, encountering many adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards, before eventually coming to the surface again in southern Italy, at the Stromboli volcano.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: A World Tour Underwater is a classic science fiction adventure novel by French writer Jules Verne; it was first published in 1870. The book was widely acclaimed on its release and remains so; it''s regarded as one of the premiere adventure novels and one of Verne''s greatest works, along with Around the World in Eighty Days and Journey to the Center of the Earth. The presentation of Captain Nemo''s ship, the Nautilus, was considered ahead of its time, as it accurately describes many features of modern submarines, which in the 1860s were comparatively primitive vessels.

Off on a Comet is an 1877 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story starts with a comet called Gallia, that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. The disaster occurs on January 1 in the area around Gibraltar. On the territory that is carried away by the comet there remain a total of thirty-six people of French, English, Spanish and Russian nationality. These people do not realize at first what has happened, and consider the collision an earthquake.

Around the World in Eighty Days is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (£2,242,900 in 2019) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne''s most acclaimed works.

Around the World in Eighty Days is an adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, first published in French in 1872. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (£2,242,900 in 2019) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne''s most acclaimed works.

Just as the narrator starts the ascent of his balloon, a stranger jump into its car. The unexpected passenger''s only intent is to take the balloon as high as it will go, even at the cost of his and pilot''s life. The intruder takes advantage of the long journey to recount the history of incidents related to the epic of lighter-than-air travel. This short story foreshadows Verne''s first novel, Five Weeks in a Balloon.

"The Secret of the Island was another of the series of Voyages Extraordinaires which ran through a famous Paris magazine for younger readers, the Magasin Illustré. It formed the third and completing part of the Mysterious Island set of tales of adventure. We may count it, taken separately, as next to Robinson Crusoe and possibly Treasure Island, the best read and the best appreciated book in all that large group of island-tales and sea-stories to which it belongs. It gained its vogue immediately in France, Great Britain, and overseas besides being translated, with more or less despatch, into other European tongues."

Sur une île du Pacifique, deux naufragés sont rescapés par le James Cook qui fait voile vers l’Australie. Les deux frères Kip, d’origine hollandaise, constatent bientôt qu’une mutinerie se prépare et ils parviennent à la juguler non sans peine. Mais l’étau se resserre sur eux quand le chef des mutins accuse les deux frères du meurtre du capitaine. En dépit de leur innocence, ils sont incarcérés au pénitencier de Port-Arthur (en Tasmanie). Malgré les dures conditions de vie du bagne, ils entreprennent de planifier leur évasion afin de retrouver les assassins.

Au cœur de l’Afrique, dans une forêt impénétrable, celle de l’Oubanghi, deux explorateurs blancs accompagnés d’un indigène et d’un enfant noir découvrent une peuplade inconnue, qui vit dans les arbres. Ces deux héros, un Français et un Américain, nommés Max Huber et John Cort, les observent afin de savoir s’ils sont humains et tentent de rencontrer leur roi...

Facing the Flag or For the Flag is an 1896 patriotic novel by Jules Verne. The book is part of the Voyages Extraordinaires series. It has the theme of France and the entire world threatened by a super-weapon with the threat finally overcome through the force of French patriotism. It can be considered one of the first books dealing with problems which were to become paramount half a century after its publication in World War II and the Cold War: brilliant scientists discovering new weapons of great destructive power, whose full utilization might literally destroy the world.

Dick Sand, the Boy Captain is a Jules Verne novel published in 1878. It deals primarily with the issue of slavery, and the African slave trade by other Africans in particular. Dick Sand is a fifteen-year-old boy that serves on the schooner Pilgrim, a whaler that normally voyages across the Pacific in their efforts to find targets.

The Moon-Voyage is an 1865 novel by Jules Verne. It tells the story of the Baltimore Gun Club, a post-American Civil War society of weapons enthusiasts, and their attempts to build an enormous Columbiad space gun and launch three people-the Gun Club''s president, his Philadelphian armor-making rival, and a French poet-in a projectile with the goal of a Moon landing. Five years later, Verne wrote a sequel called Around the Moon. This book contains both "FROM THE EARTH TO THE MOON," and "ROUND THE MOON."

Joam Garral répond favorablement à la demande de sa fille de se rendre à Belém où elle veut se marier avec Manuel Valdez. A Belém, il veut prouver son innocence car il est toujours accusé au Brésil d’un crime qu’il n’a pas commis. Un étrange cryptogramme pourrait l’innocenter mais le précieux document a été intercepté par Torrès, un affreux personnage. Le message secret sera-t-il déchiffré et justice faite ? Nous le saurons au terme d’incroyables péripéties qui fourmillent d’exotisme et de descriptions fabuleuses de la faune, de la flore, d’Indiens primitifs et d’esclaves noirs en fuite dans la luxuriante forêt amazonienne. La Jangada est l’un des romans les moins connus des fameux “Voyages extraordinaires” de Jules Verne.

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (French: La Jangada - Huit Cents lieues sur l'Amazone) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1881.Unlike many of his other novels, this story does not have any science fiction elements. It is an adventure novel.This novel involves how Joam Garral, a ranch owner who lives near the Peruvian-Brazilian border on the Amazon River, is forced to travel down-stream when his past catches up with him. Most of the novel is situated on a large jangada (a Brazilian timber raft) that is used by Garral and his family to float to Belém at the river's mouth. Many aspects of the raft, scenery, and journey are described in detail.