A casual wager hastens the elegant and exacting Phileas Fogg on a rollicking ride around the world with his entertaining sidekick Passepartout in tow and the dogged Detective Fix hot on their heels. By cab, rail, steamer, and ingenious means improvised en route, they cobble together a global adventure in which they overcome all manner of unanticipated and sometimes uproarious obstacles while still managing to rescue the demure princess Aouda. Full...

"Vingt Mille Lieues sous les mers" de Jules Verne est un classique de la littérature d'aventure. Le professeur Aronnax, son assistant Conseil et le harponneur Ned Land, se retrouvent pris au piège à bord d'un mystérieux sous-marin, le Nautilus, dirigé par le capitaine Nemo. Au fil de leur voyage sous-marin, ils découvrent des merveilles de la nature, mais aussi les terribles secrets du capitaine Nemo et de son navire. Avec une prose captivante...

"In this spirited novel by master storyteller Jules Verne, five Civil War prisoners escape their Confederate jail by hijacking a hot-air balloon. Blown halfway across the world and stranded on a remote island, the fugitives' survival depends upon their ability to build a sustainable environment while withstanding pirate attacks, volcanic eruptions, and other challenges. Engineer Cyrus Harding takes charge of the crew, consisting of his servant, Neb;...

"When an eccentric professor acquires an ancient book, a riddle on a spare piece of parchment tucked neatly within its pages leads him and his nephew on an unparalleled adventure. The unlocked riddle brings them to a remote mountain on Iceland, where they enter an extinct volcano on a daring quest to reach the center of the earth. They soon find themselves at a giant underground ocean where the laws of science are constantly redefined and prehistoric...

Phileas Fogg rashly bets his companions £20,000 that he can travel around the entire globe in just eighty days₂and he is determined not to lose. Breaking the well-established routine of his daily life, the reserved Englishman immediately sets off for Dover, accompanied by his hot- blooded French manservant, Passepartout. Traveling by train, steamship, sailboat, sledge, and even elephant, they must overcome storms, kidnappings, natural disasters,...

Around the world in eighty days: 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...

"When this book was originally published posthumously in 1906, Verne's son, Michel, rewrote many of his father's passages. Proof that the Frenchman's fiction (e.g., "20,000 Leagues Under the Sea; Around the World in Eighty Days") never disappoints, this version is the first authentic English translation of Verne's original manuscript and restores the story as he originally wrote it. Set at the height of the Klondike gold rush, the story recounts the...

Around the world in 80 days: an English gentleman bets 20,000 pounds that he can travel around the world in only 80 days. 20,000 leagues under the sea: the adventures of a French professor and his two companions as they sail above and below the world's oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo. Journey to the center of the Earth: When Axel deciphers an old parchment that describes a secret passage through...