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The classic adventure novel-and basis for the Disney film-from the author of Around the World in Eighty Days and Journey to the Center of the Earth.
After the Britannia is shipwrecked, Captain Grant casts a message in a bottle into the ocean and hopes for the best. When the bottle is found by Lord and Lady Glenarvan of Scotland, they contact the captain's children, Mary and Robert. But the Scottish government refuses to launch a rescue expedition.
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But strange as the journey may be, it's nowhere near as strange as what they will find waiting at its end.
One of the lesser known novels by Jules Verne, but certainly a novel that is worth reading, An Antarctic Mystery or The Sphinx of the Ice Fields is a fictional travelogue that describes the narrator's adventures as he travels from Kerguelen Islands, a group of islands in the Indian Ocean, towards the South Pole.
The novel is the account of the...
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When a mother puma, an attempt to steal a chicken, she is caught in a trap and dies. The search is on for orphaned cubs. Will the scientists be able to find the cubs before their time runs out? In this "Biography in Text and Art," Harvill takes original photos as references to create accurate wildlife illustrations. These aren't generic cats, but one particular individual in detail. Pattison's careful research, vetted by scientists in the field, brings...
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The first complete English translation of Jules Verne's epic fantasy novel.
Decades after Edgar Allan Poe's longest and weirdest tale, The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym, was published-the protagonist disappearing into the misty, mystifying Antarctic seas; his fate unknown-Jules Verne took up the challenge to answer what had happened to him. In The Sphinx of the Ice Realm, he penned the most amazing journey of his fabled career: a voyage across...
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Extrait: "Remontons-nous? -Non! Au contraire! Nous descendons! -Pis que cela, monsieur Cyrus! Nous tombons! -Pour Dieu! Jetez du lest! -Voilà le dernier sac vidé! -Le ballon se relève-t-il? -Non! -J'entends comme un clapotement de vagues! -La mer est sous la nacelle! -Elle ne doit pas être à cinq cents pieds de nous! Alors une voix puissante déchira l'air, et ces mots retentirent: “Dehors tout ce qui pèse!...tout! et à la grâce de Dieu!"...
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Invite readers to swim alongside a gray whale as she heads south on the longest migration journey of any mammal on Earth. When Whales Cross the Sea enchants readers with a story-like narrative while subtly teaching the role of migration in the whale's life cycle. Includes a "fast facts" page, a glossary, and realistic, text-match illustrations.
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Focusing on the migration journey of one specific monarch butterfly, When Butterflies Cross the Sky engages readers with a story-like narrative while subtly teaching the role of migration in the butterfly's life cycle. Includes a "fast facts" page, a glossary, and realistic, text-match illustrations that pull readers right into the sky.
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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...
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Sur les routes des États-Unis, une mystérieuse voiture a été repérée qui roule deux fois plus vite que n'importe quelle voiture de course. Au large des ctes américaines, on a découvert un étrange navire profilé qui flotte sans l'aide du vent, de la vapeur ou d'un moteur à kérosène et part de toute poursuite. Dans le lac, isolé du réseau hydrographique, on remarque la présence d'un sous-marin... Comment tous ces événements sont-ils...
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En 1839, l'Américain Jeorling, minéralogiste, de passage aux îles Kerguelen, cherche à retourner dans son Connecticut natal. Il rencontre Len Guy, le capitaine de la goélette l'Halbrane ; celui-ci accepte tant bien que mal de l'emmener. Le départ a lieu le 15 août 1839.
Cette œuvre se présente comme une suite au roman d'Edgar Allan Poe — auquel il est dédié —, Les Aventures d'Arthur Gordon Pym, publié en 1838. Alors que le texte de...
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Dick Sand is a fifteen-year-old boy serving on the schooner Pilgrim as a sailor. The crew are whale hunters that voyage every year down to New Zealand. After an unsuccessful season of hunting an entomologist ask for a return passage to San Francisco. Several days into the journey they save five shipwrecked passengers from another ship and a dog who was with them at the time.
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Brilliant Victor Cyprien loves a South African mining heiress, but needs money. A failure at diamond mining, he instead creates a spectacular artificial gem of his own. The sudden disappearance of this "Star of the South" leads Victor and his romantic rivals on a wild chase across the veldt-but are they on the right track?
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Extrait : "Il y a deux chances de ne jamais revoir les amis don’t on se sépare pour un long voyage : ceux qui restent peuvent ne se plus retrouver, au retour ; ceux qui partent peuvent ne plus revenir. Mais ils ne se préoccupaient guère de cette éventualité, les marins qui faisaient leurs préparatifs d'appareillage à bord du Franklin, dans la matinée du 15 mars 1875. Ce jour-là, le Franklin, capitaine John Branican, était sur le point...
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When Crabs Cross the Sand follows the migration journey of one specific Christmas Island crab, subtly teaching the role of migration in the crab's life cycle while engaging readers with a story-like narrative. Includes a "fast facts" page, a glossary, and realistic, text-match illustrations that pull readers right to the water's edge.
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À bord du James-Cook, le capitaine Gibson attend de pouvoir partir de Nouvelle-Zélande pour rejoindre la Nouvelle-Irlande, mais son équipage n'est pas au complet à cause de désertions. Flig Balt, son maître d'équipage, et Vin Mod, un de ses matelots, se chargent alors de recruter quatre nouveaux matelots cherchant avant tout l'argent facile. Avec cet équipage recomposé, il doit retrouver son fils, Nat Gibson, et l'armateur du navire, M. Hawkins,...
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The Gun Club, a society based in Baltimore and dedicated to the design of weapons of all kinds, come up with a plan to construct a cannon capable of shooting a projectile to the moon. The projectile is successfully launched, but the destinies of the three astronauts are left inconclusive. The sequel, Around the Moon, deals with what happens to the three men in their travel from the earth to the moon.
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In 1926, Lillian Alling, a European immigrant, set out on a journey home from New York. She had little money and no transportation, but plenty of determination. In the three years that followed, Alling walked all the way to Dawson City, Yukon, crossing the North American continent on foot. She walked across the Canadian landscape, weathering the baking sun and freezing winter, crossed the rugged Rocky Mountains and hiked the untested wilderness of...
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An extraordinary life isn't a place where you finally arrive. It isn't a destination. It is a collection of the thousands and thousands of decisions you make throughout your life!
This is a book about change. And while a lot of folks say they want to change, few of them do. Instead, they seek what is ordinary, what is common, known, and comfortable.
If you truly want to live an extraordinary life, you must be willing to look inward and change!
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