Author: Jules Verne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, French-speaking West
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Barsac Mission: Into the Niger bend
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, French-speaking West
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, French-speaking West
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Into the Niger Bend
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Adventure stories
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The Barsac Mission: Into the Niger bend
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, French-speaking West
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, French-speaking West
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Into the Niger Bend
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780884119111
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780884119111
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 192
Book Description
The Barsac Mission: The city in the Sahara
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, French-speaking West
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Africa, French-speaking West
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
The City in the Sahara
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434451666
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Translation of L'Etonnante Adventure de la Mission Barsac.
Publisher: Wildside Press LLC
ISBN: 1434451666
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
Translation of L'Etonnante Adventure de la Mission Barsac.
Invasion of the Sea
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 081956558X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
First English edition of a classic Verne novel.
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 081956558X
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
First English edition of a classic Verne novel.
The Mighty Orinoco
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819567809
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Written in 1898, and part of Jules Verne's famous series "Voyages Extraordinaires, " this fantastic tale a young man's search for his father along Venezuela's then-uncharted Orinoco River contains all the ingredients of a classic Verne scientific-adventure storyQas well as a unique feminist twist.
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819567809
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 448
Book Description
Written in 1898, and part of Jules Verne's famous series "Voyages Extraordinaires, " this fantastic tale a young man's search for his father along Venezuela's then-uncharted Orinoco River contains all the ingredients of a classic Verne scientific-adventure storyQas well as a unique feminist twist.
The Kip Brothers
Author: Jules Verne
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819574589
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Castaways on a barren island in the South Seas, Karl and Pieter Kip are rescued by the brig James Cook. After helping to quell an onboard mutiny, however, they suddenly find themselves accused and convicted of the captain’s murder. In this story, one of his last Voyages Extraordinaires, Verne interweaves an exciting exploration of the South Pacific with a tale of judicial error reminiscent of the infamous Dreyfus Affair. This Wesleyan edition brings together the first English translation with one of the first detailed critical analyses of the novel, and features all the illustrations from the original 1902 publication.
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
ISBN: 0819574589
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Castaways on a barren island in the South Seas, Karl and Pieter Kip are rescued by the brig James Cook. After helping to quell an onboard mutiny, however, they suddenly find themselves accused and convicted of the captain’s murder. In this story, one of his last Voyages Extraordinaires, Verne interweaves an exciting exploration of the South Pacific with a tale of judicial error reminiscent of the infamous Dreyfus Affair. This Wesleyan edition brings together the first English translation with one of the first detailed critical analyses of the novel, and features all the illustrations from the original 1902 publication.
Literature of Travel and Exploration
Author: Jennifer Speake
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135456623
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 3477
Book Description
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135456623
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 3477
Book Description
Containing more than 600 entries, this valuable resource presents all aspects of travel writing. There are entries on places and routes (Afghanistan, Black Sea, Egypt, Gobi Desert, Hawaii, Himalayas, Italy, Northwest Passage, Samarkand, Silk Route, Timbuktu), writers (Isabella Bird, Ibn Battuta, Bruce Chatwin, Gustave Flaubert, Mary Kingsley, Walter Ralegh, Wilfrid Thesiger), methods of transport and types of journey (balloon, camel, grand tour, hunting and big game expeditions, pilgrimage, space travel and exploration), genres (buccaneer narratives, guidebooks, New World chronicles, postcards), companies and societies (East India Company, Royal Geographical Society, Society of Dilettanti), and issues and themes (censorship, exile, orientalism, and tourism). For a full list of entries and contributors, a generous selection of sample entries, and more, visit the Literature of Travel and Exploration: An Encyclopedia website.