the Days

Shocking his stodgy colleagues at the exclusive Reform Club, enigmatic Englishman Phileas Fogg wagers his fortune, undertaking an extraordinary and daring enterprise: to circumnavigate the globe in eighty days. With his French valet Passepartout in tow, V

A fantastic tale of the world's beauty and unity after the Great Change occurs.

Another in the "Doom of London" series, in which the author sounds a clarion call of potential disasters that may fall upon the great city. Here he relates a tale of air pollution. Excerpt:They crawled along through the black suffocating darkness, feeble

In the whole history of the English people there is no period so absolutely heroic, so full of enthralling interest, as that in which the might of England made itself apparent by land and sea—the period which saw good Queen Bess mistress of English hearts

The Oregon Trail--what suggestion the name carries of the heroic toil of pioneers! Yet a few years' ago the route of the trail was only vaguely known. Then public interest was awakened by the report that one of the very men who had made the trip to Oregon

Fred M. White published this fictional story in 1903 about London in the grip of a severe 4-day arctic snow-storm, showing the hardships and consequences for which the city was unprepared, including price gouging and angry mobs.Actually, the "The history

Jules Verne's thrilling adventure novel in a pocket hardback editionAround the World in Eighty Days (Le tour du monde en quatre-vingt jours) is a classic. The story starts in London on 2 October 1872. Phileas Fogg is a wealthy, solitary man with regular habits, who fires his former butler for getting wrong the temperature of his shaving water. He hires Passepartout as a replacement. Later that day he gets involved in an argument over an article in the Daily Telegraph, stating that with the openi

AT THE Edge OF THE Days

Nyelv: Angol, Kötés: Puha kötésű, Oldalszám: 320, Kiadó: HarperCollins Publishers, Autor: Verne,J., ISBN-13: 9780007350940, Kiadás éve: 2010

Nyelv: Angol, Kötés: Puha kötésű, Oldalszám: 384, Kiadó: Wordsworth Editions, Autor: Jules Verne, ISBN-13: 9781853260902, Kiadás éve: 1994

Strange Days

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'Phileas Fogg was one of those mathematically exact people, who, never hurried and always ready, are economical of their steps and their motions. He never made one stride too many, always going by the shortest route. He did not give an idle look. He did not allow himself a superfluous gesture.' When Phileas Fogg wagers a bet that he can travel across the globe in just 80 days, little does he know about the epic jo

Hi, I’m Stella Stella, and I journaled my epic and personal pilgrimage backpacking through the Camino De Santiago.  Originally intended to share this only with a few close friends, my detailed journal is real, and raw (and funny).  This beautifu

Nyelv: Angol, Kötés: Puha kötésű, Oldalszám: 16, Kiadó: Macmillan, Autor: Jules Verne, ISBN-13: 9780230026742, Kiadás éve: 2008

On the run. Wanted for murder. Indentured to an unknown master.   When Ray Cobb fled to the mountains east of Los Angeles to escape the bounty on his head, he didn’t know what was waiting for him. After his tattoo piques the interest of a skittish fry coo