JULES VERNE

pubOne.info present you this new edition. "e;To-morrow, at low tide, the brig Forward, Captain K. Z- - , Richard Shandon mate, will start from New Prince's Docks for an unknown destination....

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. CHARLESTON, SEPTEMBER 27th, 1869. - It is high tide, and three o&'clock in the afternoon when we leave the Battery-quay; the ebb carries us off shore, and as Captain Huntly has hoisted both main and top sails, the northerly breeze drives the Chancellor...

pubOne.info present you this new edition. "e;Are we rising again? "e; "e;No. On the contrary. "e; "e;Are we descending? "e; "e;Worse than that, captain! we are falling! "e; "e;For Heaven's sake heave out the ballast! "e; "e;There! the last sack is empty! "e; "e;Does the balloon rise? "e;...

In the month of September, 1850, I arrived at Frankfort-on-the-Maine. My passage through the principal cities of Germany, had been brilliantly marked by aerostatic ascensions; but, up to this day, no inhabitant of the Confederation had accompanied me, and the successful experiments at Paris of Messrs. Green, Godard, and Poitevin, had failed to...

pubOne.info thank you for your continued support and wish to present you this new edition. THE Voyages Extraordinaires of M. Jules Verne deserve to be made widely known in English-speaking countries by means of carefully prepared translations. Witty and ingenious adaptations of the researches and discoveries of modern science to the popular taste,...

Journey to the Centre of the Earth has been consistently praised for its style and its vision of the world. It explores the prehistory of the globe, but can also be read as a psychological quest, for the journey itself is as important as arrival or discovery. Professor Lidenbrock and his nephew Axel travel across Iceland, and then down through an...