Cesar Cascabel est un roman de Jules Verne, paru en 1890. Fortune faite, la famille Cascabel, artistes forains, veulent quitter l'Amerique pour rejoindre leur Normandie natale. Par malheur, deux aigrefins les volent, leur enlevant tout espoir de pouvoir payer leur traversee de l'Atlantique. Cesar, le chef de famille, decide de regagner le sol natal en roulotte, d'abord par le detroit de Behring pris dans les glaces, puis en traversant la Siberie et la Russie."

Around the World in Eighty Days is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed Frenchvalet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a 20,000 wager (equal to about 2 million in 2016) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works.

An Antarctic Mystery (French: Le Sphinx des glaces, The Sphinx of the Ice Fields) is a two-volume novel by Jules Verne. Written in 1897, it is a response to Edgar Allan Poe's 1838 novel The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket. It follows the adventures of the narrator and his journey from the Kerguelen Islands aboard Halbrane. Neither Poe nor Verne had actually visited the remote Kerguelen Islands, located in the south Indian Ocean, but their works are some of the few literary (as opposed to exploratory) references to the archipelago.

It's March 1865, the final days of the American Civil War, and five prisoners of war are held captive in Richmond. Desperate to leave the city, they make a daring escape in a hot air balloon during a terrible storm. Carried by the storm's winds for 4 days, the balloon crashes near an island in the South Pacific. The castaways are stranded on this unknown shore with nothing but the clothes on their backs and each other. Fortunately the island is rich in natural resources they'll need to survive. They name the island after President Lincoln and make it their home until they can find a way off....

Teenage Dick Sands, shipboard apprentice, must act to save his friends from slavery in this classic tale of a boy hero in exotic surroundings, one of Jules Verne's "Extraordinary Voyages." Includes new cover art and two illustrations from the original French addition. An adventure as fantastic as THE MYSTERIOUS ISLAND

En mayo de 1867 un grupo de hombres realiza una larga expedicion por la India en un fantastico medio de transporte: un vehiculo con traccion de vapor acondicionado como vivienda. Un viaje inolvidable, lleno de los peligros y misterios propios de los libros de Jules Verne, que los lleva de Calcuta a las laderas del Himalaya. Una esplendida novela, poblada de enemigos recalcitrantes y cazas salvajes."

Novela del escritor frances Jules Verne publicada postumamente en forma de serial en "Le journal" desde el 24 de septiembre hasta el 2 de noviembre de 1908, y posteriormente en una edicion doble con "La caza del meteoro" el 15 de noviembre de ese mismo ano. Un pescador decide batir la marca de navegacion a lo largo del Danubio manteniendose unicamente con el fruto de su pesca. La inusual situacion provoca que un inspector de policia piense que es responsable de una serie de delitos cometidos en el importante rio."

Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1881. It has also been published as The Giant Raft. Unlike many of his other novels, this story does not have any science fiction elements. It is an adventure novel. This novel involves how Joam Garral, a ranch owner who lives near the Peruvian-Brazilian border on the Amazon River, is forced to travel down-stream when his past catches up with him. Most of the novel is situated on a large jangada (a Brazilian timber raft) that is used by Garral and his family to float to Belem at the river's mouth. Many aspects of the...