Five Weeks in a Balloon- Jules Verne

Título original: Cinq semaines en ballon

Dr. Samuel Fergusson at the Royal Geographical Society of London, explains his desire to cross Africa from north to south in a balloon, which was a great surprise and disbelief after generated in the room, as it was impossible at the time.

To this he fell Dick Kennedy's visit, a friend who is a hunter, and lives in Scotland. To be to desist from his project, Dr. Fergunsson, I try to convince migo her to but this was refused, he told her strength and, when she learned that her project doctor was lead escort, which happened until the end of journey.

But Dr. Samuel Fergunsson, continued his project, which carried out secretly with MM workshops. Which strictly they followed his instructions.

When he was ready, he was transferred to a ship called the Resolote in Greenwich Harbor. When I know finalized preparations direction was taken to Tanzania Zanzibar Island, located off the eastern coast of Africa in the Indian Ocean. To take advantage of updrafts of Africa to reach the north.

After a fairly quiet street, they came to the island of Zanzibar. Where the Imam. We were greeted with open arms, putting at their disposal everything necessary for the trip, giving an islet in the area to perform the maneuver of the load of hydrogen in the balloon called Victoria, for the trip which was done in just a days.

When the balloon was about the journey north began. All that remains are a number of obstacles wiling cross Africa are slowly overcoming, being attacked by monkeys, and especially with the natives: to be taken as something to be destroyed without mercy, for children of the moon and be cult objects, saving the life of a French priest of the hands of a tribe, the balloon being pulled by a huge pachyderm by the plateaus of Africa, suffer depressions, like crossing vast desert and endless adversity all magnitude of which gracefully exit.

In addition, of course, improve and expand all the maps of the period, plus an amount of fabulous discoveries.

Until they arrive, the Senegal River in Guinea, which is the end of your adventure or rather his odyssey

Journey to the Center of the Earth- Jules Verne

Original title: Voyage au centre de la terre.

For centuries, a scroll written with Runic hieroglyph, has remained hidden inside a book that aide in the hands of Professor Otto Lidenbrock, after a few days trying to translate their content encryption chance and Runic writing which gets his nephew Axel, from this point the whole story unfolds.

It is aimed at Reykjavik, Iceland. They speak with the governor of that city which provides them with a guide who will lead them to the volcano, indicated on parchment, Arne Sakmussemm, when they reach the mouth of the volcano waiting for climate will be favorable, and glide on a large crater depth when they reach the end, you will find a gallery with two apparently identical tunnels of Professor Otto Lidenbrock sings. On the right, des for several day I walked arrive combines gallery where there is no escape and without them that no water, they decide to return to the previous gallery when they Axel, fainted from lack of water Professor Otto Lidenbrock, it gives you a little of what he had left in his pumpkin.
After a conversation with Axel, that it agrees that if they find water in one day return and are launched by the tunnel to the left, after a long journey is Hans know the guide, which is set to be a hole in the wall where the rumor of a tributary of water can be heard once again with water provided decide to continue your journey.

In this Axel you are lost in a maze, helped by the indications of his uncle, gets out and reach the sea where fish carcasses.

Here they are set to build a raft to cross over this sea or lake, but the journey is much longer than they expected, in this part they hit a ichthyosaur and plesiosaur that are fighting and do not realize his presence.

During the trip there is a storm, threatening the lives of all, thanks to Hans survive, only to realize that the storm has rolled back instead of forward, which is not like anything the group.

While investigating the shore where there is a forest and animals of the Tertiary, found with a knife that belonged to Arne Saknussemm, which had been there 300 years before and found a rock that indicates the way forward, which is obstructed by a large rock, is if they decide to use dynamite to Brice way, but the explosion of dynamite causes a terrible wave that leads through different corridors and galleries to one that is vertical and where the water begins to rise rapidly. But it turns out one of the openings of the volcano Vesuvius in Italy.

As sad thing is that they never reach the center of the earth due to the accident with gunpowder, they were only some 1,500 miles from their goal.

The Mighty Orinoco- Jules Verne

Original title: Le Superbe Orénoque.

It all begins when the library of the University of Ciudad Bolivar three geographers called: Michael, Felipe and Varinas, decide to end the discussion on the path of the Orinoco, and decide to search for the birth Orinoco, to the exploration join the Sergeant Martial and his nephew Jean De Kermo, search for the father of Jean, who fourteen years before self-exile from France to Venezuela, for personal reasons.

Later they were joined by two French and one botanical other Hunter, Jacques Helloch, Germain Paterne respectively who fulfilled a request from the French Minister of Public Instruction. For Orinoco wildlife explore.

These trace the Orinoco in a skinny because a ship can not pass, there is little depth in the course from San Fernando de Apure, the adventure is present throughout all history:

First against the adversities of climate, the river, animals and all kinds of insects.

Second diseases tiredness or boredom.

Third, the repeated attacks of the Indians called quivas, coming from Colombia, and are led by Alfaniz, how escapee from prison in Caracas, a bloody ruthless and cruel. Which it maintains a major offensive to members of the expedition, as well as with the missionary named Father Esperante living in the sources of the Orinoco.

Plus other surprises that history is revealed to us.

Around the World in Eighty Days- Jules Verne

Original title: Le Tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours

The journey begins when at the Reform Club, Phileas Fogg, in one of the many evenings and nights, that he spend in the club, makes a start to friends of the club, he could, traveling around the world in eighty days. And you had to employ all the means for transport of the time: << vapors boats, rail cars, yachts, merchant ships, shots, elephants >>. And it costs more than nineteen thousand pounds; "Most of his fortune." But the bet cost twenty thousand pounds of benefit to him. His friends attended the bet, but not before hesitating a moment in achieving this adventure, and I should jump from a railroad and steam to a steam railway in the least possible time and the itinerary would be as follows:
Days
From London to Suez, by Mount Cenis and Brindisi, Steam Railway and 7
Suez to Bombay, Steamers 13
From Bombay to Calcutta, Railway 3
Calcutta to Hong Kong (China), 13
Hong Kong (China) to Yokohama (Japan), Vapor 6
San Francisco, New York, Railway-Highway 9
80 Days Total

The eccentric Phileas Fogg, had deployed in this business their wonderful qualities of serenity, accuracy and others who are discovered while reading.

The story takes very little time trial narrative adventure in which you have to negotiate all kinds of climatic adversity, as in the same way that all impediments made available to the "Fix Police" and the fate against "Phileas Fogg," and your traveling companions.

But at the end of your trip, once you've lost everything, we can ask ourselves; What had earned that trip, and the trip cost him the benefits of the bet? Or rather What had brought from his trip worthwhile?

Nothing will be said. Nothing, unless a beautiful woman named Aouda, that made him the happiest of men, after marry him. Which he rescued from a human sacrifice in India risking his own life.

And truly, I wonder, who of us will not go around the world many times, just to meet that amazing woman?

Captain Antifer- Jules Verne

Original title:: Mirifiques Aventures de Maître Antifer

It all starts when a stranger Ship, with an unknown captain. He goes in search of an unknown island in an unknown sea.

Actually this unknown ship is commanded by Captain Zo, and for the last fifteen months he has seek an "unknown island," for cartographers. I wanted to find this island was his to migo Kamylk Pasha, who accompanied him on the trip. Which she was an Egyptian, who had a huge fortune in diamonds, rubies, gold, silver and other jewelry, worth a hundred million francs.

He wanted to hide this fortune, his cousin Murad, who was his only heir who was six years younger than him, and his enemy by political ideologies, Kamylk-Pasha is even prepared jettison his enormous fortune if not Islet is the case before it fell into the hands of his cousin.
On September 9 at twilight, the lookout, currency earth, according to the maps in that location should not have land along several leagues round bone found in the much desired to hide this treasure island.

Kamylk Pasha, was cast prisoner and sentenced to death after capitulation of Jaffa, March 6, with a group of four thousand soldiers during the war that kept Napoleon Bonaparte to conquer Egypt and later as he fled from his cousin He enjoyed the support of the viceroy of Egypt, who wanted to seize his fortune. In these circumstance, three people get help to escape several times, moving his vast fortune from Egypt to Syria, and has then escape from Syria, declared war when the viceroy of Egypt, inspired by his cousin. And to let them inherit this vast fortune the following people:
These people live in different parts of the globe: one was called Thomas Antifer and was captain and lived in Saint-Malo in Brittany, France, which saved his life for the killing of Napoleon Bonaparte.

The other was Zambuco, a banker who was originally from Malta but who had spent many years living as a lender in Tunisia, and was the one who put his safe in Aleppo in Syria with his fortune.

The latter, called Tyrcomel, who was a esquire, who lived in Edinburgh, Scotland in England.

To all this he sent a letter notifying that in some years later compensate them for they services, leaving a legacy his enormous fortune, equally, less than one percent of that wealth belonging to the executor for having informed Kamylk death Pasha, and where that is the "unknown island".

This was a notary executor of Alexandria in Egypt called Ben-Omar.

Thus when Ben-Omar, twenty years later visit the Pasha Kamylk death in prisons in Cairo, the son of Thomas Antifer, having died this in his old age without receiving the letter. Begins an adventure through Europe, middle Eastand Africa, across the sea and by land. Interesting and fun to unite all surrogates and go in search of the "Unknown Islet". Especially when the scene comes Sauk, who was the son of Murad, who also hated Kamylk Pasha, like his father.

Michael, the czar's courier - Jules Verne

Original title: Michel Strogoff. De Moscou à Irkutsk

The story begins when the city of Irkutsk, capital of Eastern Siberia, has been incommunicado for an uprising in snooze by Ogareff, and a group of exiles to Siberia, which had the support of a Tartar invasion, to kill the great Duke, brother of the Czar, located at that time in that city, and culminate with the Russian conquest.

The Zar is aware of these plans a few months ago by anonymous letters prepared a counter action to the invasion lasted as little as possible and save the life of his brother, but the facts rushed too fast and could not finish the Czar measures designed to control the invasion.

But he could not contact his brother that the Tartars have cut telegraph wires with Moscow. In itself that decides to send a member of the Czar mail to this risky mission elects Michael, who must negotiate the Ural Mountains, mountains, plains, wetlands, and a thousand other dangers on a heroic journey. In which he must not be alone and is accompanied by a girl he meets on a train, called Nadia. he lives with great and exciting adventures to survive during these endless events where Nadia saves, and guides when he recognized that upon reaching an inn that was near his mother greet you try calling him by name and more later Ogareff to recognize blinded him here after many adventures Nadia represent a very important role in your life