Vigo Books » Jules Verne https://www.vigobooks.com Just another WordPress weblog Sun, 06 Apr 2014 16:01:31 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.40 Around the World in Eighty Days https://www.vigobooks.com/classics/world-literature/around-the-world-in-eighty-days-2/ https://www.vigobooks.com/classics/world-literature/around-the-world-in-eighty-days-2/#comments Mon, 26 Sep 2011 16:04:21 +0000 http://www.vigobooks.com/?p=3124 It’s the age of steam and the opening of a new railway in India prompts claims that it is now possible to circumnavigate the world in just 80 days. For a bet, Phileas Fogg decides to prove that such a feat is possible and sets out on a perilous and exciting race across the world.

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To test his theory that volcanoes house tunnels leading to the centre of the Earth, Professor Otto Liedenbrock and his companions set out on a brave and exciting adventure to discover the world underneath our feet.

Along the way they encounter prehistoric creatures, subterranean oceans and evidence of a underground civilization.

]]> https://www.vigobooks.com/classics/world-literature/a-journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth-2/feed/ 0 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea https://www.vigobooks.com/classics/essential-classics/twenty-thousand-leagues-under-the-sea-2/ https://www.vigobooks.com/classics/essential-classics/twenty-thousand-leagues-under-the-sea-2/#comments Mon, 11 Apr 2011 15:32:47 +0000 http://www.vigobooks.com/?p=2144 In this science fiction classic, Captain Nemo and his crew travel the world’s seas in the submarine Nautilus, lured on by tales of sea monsters. During their amazing adventures they encounter scientific wonders, travel to remote islands and discover magical coral gardens, sunken treasure, strange creatures and other mysteries of the deep…

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]]> https://www.vigobooks.com/classics/world-literature/around-the-world-in-eighty-days/feed/ 0 A Journey to the Center of the Earth https://www.vigobooks.com/classics/world-literature/a-journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth/ https://www.vigobooks.com/classics/world-literature/a-journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth/#comments Wed, 04 Aug 2010 15:35:38 +0000 http://www.vigobooks.com/?p=164 To test his theory that volcanoes house tunnels leading to the centre of the Earth, Professor Otto Liedenbrock and his companions set out on a brave and exciting adventure to discover the world underneath our feet.

Along the way they encounter prehistoric creatures, subterranean oceans and evidence of a underground civilization.

]]> https://www.vigobooks.com/classics/world-literature/a-journey-to-the-center-of-the-earth/feed/ 0 Twenty Thousand Leagues Under The Sea https://www.vigobooks.com/classics/world-literature/twenty-thousand-leagues-under-the-sea/ https://www.vigobooks.com/classics/world-literature/twenty-thousand-leagues-under-the-sea/#comments Sat, 31 Jul 2010 10:17:11 +0000 http://www.vigobooks.com/?p=442 Jules Verne’s classic underwater adventure Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is probably his most famous and popular work.

In this classic science fiction novel Captain Nemo and his crew travel the world’s seas in the submarine Nautilus lured on by tales of sea monsters. During their amazing adventures they encounter scientific wonders, travel to remote islands and discover magical coral gardens, sunken treasure, strange creatures and other mysteries of the deep…Join them on their gripping odyssey from the Antarctic to Atlantis in this literary classic.

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