Ilia Brusch, ganador del premio de pescadores aficionados de la liga del Danubio, parte en una embarcacion para navegar a traves del famoso rio. Para realizar su expedicion el hombre piensa alimentarse solamente de la comida que pueda procurarse a traves de su pesca. El pescador acepta llevar en su bote a un hombre que se hace llamar Jaeger, y que realmente es el agente de la policia Karl Dragoch, cuya mision consiste en perseguir y encarcelar a un ladron nombrado Ladko. El viaje, que parecia ser un viaje de placer, se convierte en una excursion llena de misterios cuando Brusch es apresado.

"Segunda patria" ("Seconde patrie") es una novela del escritor frances Jules Verne aparecida de manera seriada en la "Magazine de ilustracion y recreo" ("Magasin d'Education et de Recreation") desde el 1 de enero hasta el 15 de diciembre de 1900, y en un solo tomo el 26 de noviembre de ese mismo ano. Jules Verne continua en esta novela las aventuras de "El Robinson Suizo" de Johann David Wyss.

Set in the summer of 1903, a series of unexplained events occur across the eastern United States, caused by objects moving with such great speed that they are nearly invisible. The first-person narrator John Strock, 'Head inspector in the federal police department' in Washington, DC, travels to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina to investigate. He discovers that all the phenomena are being caused by Robur, a brilliant inventor. (He was previously featured as a character in Verne's Robur the Conqueror.) Robur has perfected a new machine, which he has dubbed the Terror. It is ten-meter...

The Mysterious Island (French: L'Ile mysterieuse) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1874. The original edition, published by Hetzel, contains a number of illustrations by Jules Ferat. The novel is a crossover sequel to Verne's famous Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and In Search of the Castaways, though its themes are vastly different from those books. An early draft of the novel, initially rejected by Verne's publisher and wholly reconceived before publication, was titled Shipwrecked Family: Marooned With Uncle Robinson, seen as indicating the influence on the novel of Robinson...

- La bibliographie de l'auteur - Ses principales oeuvres - Emporte sur une comete qui a arrache a la Terre une partie des cotes de la mediterranee, un groupe d'europeens fait le tour du systeme solaire. Le francais Hector Servadac prend la tete de cette petite colonie qui comporte, entre autres, le savant Palmyrin Rosette, des anglais, des russes, des espagnols, une italienne et un usurier allemand...

IF Mr. James Starr will come to-morrow to the Aberfoyle coal-mines, Dochart pit, Yarrow shaft, a communication of an interesting nature will be made to him. "Mr. James Starr will be awaited for, the whole day, at the Callander station, by Harry Ford, son of the old overman Simon Ford." "He is requested to keep this invitation secret." Such was the letter which James Starr received by the first post, on the 3rd December, 18-, the letter bearing the Aberfoyle postmark, county of Stirling, Scotland. The engineer's curiosity was excited to the highest pitch. It never occurred to him to doubt...