Classic / British English Phileas Fogg is living quietly in London. Then he makes a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days. The result is a crazy, exciting race against time across Europe, Asia and America. There are many dangers along the way -- and a detective who wants to arrest him!

Classic / British English Phileas Fogg is living quietly in London. Then he makes a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days. The result is a crazy, exciting race against time across Europe, Asia and America. There are many dangers along the way - and a detective who wants to arrest him!

'Today is Wednesday 2nd October. If I am back in this very room in the Reform Club on Saturday 21st December by eight forty-five in the evening, I win.' Phileas Fogg bets a small fortune that he can go round the world in eighty days - a huge sum of money in 1872, worth more than a million pounds today. When he sets off on his amazing journey with his clever servant, Passepartout, they cannot afford the slightest delay. Will the two travelers have time to help Princess Aouda, when the brave and beautiful young woman is threatened with a cruel fate? Detective Fix believes that Mr Fogg is a bank...

Professor Aronnax knows all there is to know about creatures that live in the sea. So when he hears about a mysterious sea monster attacking ships he is determined to find it. He is joined by his colleague, Conseil, and Ned Land, a brave sailor. But their adventures really begin when they meet Captain Nemo. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea tells the story of their adventures beneath the oceans. Exciting and powerful classic stories to enrich and extend your children's reading experiences. TreeTops Classics are carefully adapted versions of must-read stories which introduce your readers to...

Jules Verne: Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen Frz. Titel: LE TOUR DU MONDE EN QUATRE - VINGTS JOURS (entstanden 1872). Frz. Vorabdruck: Le Temps 6.11. - 22.12.1872 Frz. Buch-Erstausgabe: J. Hetzel, Paris 1873. Dt. Vorabdruck: Pester Lloyd, 7.2. - 7.5.1873 (Nr. 31-105). Dt. Buch-Erstausgabe: Legrady, Pest 1873. Hier benutzte Ausgabe: A. Hartleben, Wien Pest Leipzig 1875, ausgeliefert September 1874, anonymer Ubersetzer des Verlages A. Hartleben. Vollstandige Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2015. Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: Jules Verne: Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen....

This book is the second volume of the three volumes entitled Dropped from the Clouds, The Abandoned, and The Secret of the Island. After flying in stormy weather for several days, the group crash-lands on a cliff-bound, volcanic, unknown (and fictitious) island, described as being located at 34 57 S 150 30 W, about 2,500 kilometres (1,600 mi) east of New Zealand. (In reality, the closest island is Marotiri, located at 27 55 S 143 26 W. In location and description though, the phantom island Ernest Legouve Reef may correspond to the rock that is left of the mysterious island at the end of the...

Jules Verne: Reisen und Abenteuer des Kapitan Hatteras Erstdruck 1864. Deutsche Erstausgabe Leipzig 1875. Ubersetzung: Karl Lanz (1805-1874). Hier als vollstandige Ausgabe beider Bande. Vollstandige Neuausgabe. Herausgegeben von Karl-Maria Guth. Berlin 2015. Textgrundlage ist die Ausgabe: Jules Verne: Reisen und Abenteuer des Kapitan Hatteras. Bekannte und unbekannte Welten. Abenteuerliche Reisen von Julius Verne, Band VII-VIII, Wien, Pest, Leipzig: A. Hartleben, 1875. Die Paginierung obiger Ausgabe wird in dieser Neuausgabe als Marginalie zeilengenau mitgefuhrt. Umschlaggestaltung von Thomas...