Around the World in 80 Days and Five Weeks in a Balloon
by Jules Verne | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 1853260908 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 1853260908 Global Overview for this book
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Journal Entry 1 by Nu-Knees from Knaresborough, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Monday, June 29, 2015
Nu-Knees from Knaresborough, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Monday, June 29, 2015
As part of a general reorganisation upstairs, I'm downsizing the number of books on my bookshelves, severely culling the books I've kept for a possible reread, including my collection of classics. Today it's the turn of my Jules Verne novels to be set free to find a new reader, including this two-in-one volume ....
Amazon Editorial Review: "Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) relates the hair-raising journey made as a wager by the Victorian gentleman Phileas Fogg, who succeeds - but only just! - in circling the globe within eighty days. The dour Fogg's obsession with his timetable is complemented by the dynamism and versatility of his French manservant, Passepartout, whose talent for getting into scrapes brings colour and suspense to the race against time.
Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863) was Verne's first novel. It documents an apocryphal jaunt across the continent of Africa in a hydrogen balloon designed by the omniscient, imperturbable and ever capable Dr Fergusson, the prototype of the Vernian adventurer."
Amazon Editorial Review: "Around the World in Eighty Days (1873) relates the hair-raising journey made as a wager by the Victorian gentleman Phileas Fogg, who succeeds - but only just! - in circling the globe within eighty days. The dour Fogg's obsession with his timetable is complemented by the dynamism and versatility of his French manservant, Passepartout, whose talent for getting into scrapes brings colour and suspense to the race against time.
Five Weeks in a Balloon (1863) was Verne's first novel. It documents an apocryphal jaunt across the continent of Africa in a hydrogen balloon designed by the omniscient, imperturbable and ever capable Dr Fergusson, the prototype of the Vernian adventurer."
Journal Entry 2 by Nu-Knees at Sainsbury's, Wetherby Road in Harrogate, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Friday, July 3, 2015
Nu-Knees at Sainsbury's, Wetherby Road in Harrogate, North Yorkshire United Kingdom on Friday, July 3, 2015
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