An Antarctic Mystery- Julio Verne

Original title: An Antarctic Mystery

Author Name: Jules Gabriel Verne

ISBN: 0008166773

Original Language: French

Genre: Lost World, adventure novel, fantasy, travel novel and adventure novel at sea

Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group

Current year of publication: 1999

Year of reading: 2017

Additional Information:

This book is in memory of Edgar Allan Poe. I advise reading first the story written by him with the title The Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym. To understand, this book is a continuation.

Summary of the work:

The story begins when Jerking is in the Kerguelen islands in a geographical study completed a few months ago and awaiting the arrival of a ship to take passage in it, so the August 7 morning comes Goleta Halberne led by Len Guy to It was accustomed not take passengers, but a conversation with Jeorling makes him change his mind at the thought that he could meet Arturo Gordon Pyn in Virginia. But as for Jeorling is not real history narrated by Edgar Allan Poe. In his book; The Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym, for Captain has all the basics of reality. Because of Goleta Jane and Captain William Guy, who appears in the book. It is none other than his brother who disappeared on the same date.

With the passage in Goleta direction of Puerto Prince Edward, during the trip no incident rather than an iceberg off the port with a corpse inside that is discovered during melting thereof, the captain ordered his collection when in Goleta Bridge, Captain Patterson recognizes that it is the second of the Jane. Containing a diary in your pocket with blurred letters that could be read as follows:

Dragged from the June 3 in North Island Tsalas ... There is still ... Captain William Guy and five of the crew of the Jane ... The Iceberg ... From June 13 ... exhausted my last resort ... Today June 16, will die.

With this message Captain

The Green Ray- Julio Verne

Original title: Le Rayon vert.

It all starts on the outskirts of Glasgow in Helensburgh fifth, it's Sam and Sib Melville brothers live with his niece Elena had grown since their father died in infancy, but the servants of Bess and Partridge.

And the adventure to pursue a Green Ray apparently seen in the twilight starts, but only in the west so start a trip around the seas of Scotland this more joined the guys want to marry Elena Ursiclos Aristobulus, but Elena does not want to marry him. During the boat trip are in involved in a rescue of a boat that was carrying a sailor and an artist named Olivier Sinclair, barium after failed attempts fail to see the green flash, Elena and Olivier least that promise during that show.

Tribulations of a Chinaman in China- Julio Verne

Original title: Les Tribulations d'un Chinois en Chine

The play begins at a luncheon where Kim-Fo a Chinese millionaire invites his teacher Wang, and his friends Yin-Pang, Hual, Pao, Tin, to announce who is getting married, with Le-u, to finish the monotony and boring life he leads, Wang, it does not provide for their happiness but want the fortune her stop smiling, to understand the true meaning of life that he has no adversity, and he does not appreciate. Fortune obeys to the letter so that Kin-Fo fall into bankruptcy a few weeks, what makes us think about suicide but authorities engage with William J. safe Bidulph, is the director of the Centennial. Giving beneficiaries Wang and Le-u.

But when you are running your plan lacks courage, leading to him think of his teacher who is a former Tai-ping, which means it is a murderer, to give him death within two months giving it a letter that will protect justice and as part of the insurance premium.

A few days recovering from bankruptcy and do not want to die what happens from now on is that you must flee across China to avoid Wang has disappeared and can not contact him, this leads to even face the top leader of the Tai-Ping Lao-Sen, for getting married and so live happily ever after.

But this leads to a question: What Kin-Fo achieved?

The Will of an Eccentric- Julio Verne

Título original: Le Testament d’ un excetrique


William J Hypperbone was a Chicago millionaire when he died left a will in which he explained how his wanted his funeral, as if July 4 it were forbid any but of mourning in the city, more then 15 days DES then dead than by lot to accompany the coffin play a game inspired by the Game of the Goose, which he call the Noble Game of the United States of America, and the press did not take long to call the match Hypperbone, these players was six plus one which he put in his will.

The story happened between trips through the states of America, which Hypperbone become 63, so that it looks like the Game of the Goose.

The fortunes of the players to overcome the obstacles on the way from one space-time was because neighborhoods have walking east to west from north to south the United States of America.

The Mysterious Island- Julio Verne

Título original: L'Île mystérieuse


Begins on March 23, 1865 with a globe and its five occupants and a dog sailing through the skies with extraordinary hurricane that lasted from 18 to 26 March covered a space of 1,800 miles going to 166 km, has been going through America, Europe and Asia, causing great havoc.

The occupants had taken off from Richmond on March 20 to escape the city Southerners Hurricane I take them to the Pacific leaving in an unknown and uninhabited island. Where they will live three years and baptized with its name to Lincoln having all sorts of adventure and build a house within a granite mountains or the contrition of a canoe and a boat that go to the island of Tatabor, and where he is Ayrton and takes him to Lincoln where the colony is increased by the training of an orangutan named Jup. It installs or telegraph and fight against pirates. And they find Captain Nemo with his Nautilus, you discover that Nemo it is an Indian prince named Dakkar.

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea- Julio Verne

Título original: Vingt mille lieues sous les mars.

Attention, the book has a sequel and is called The Mysterious Island

In the year 1866, I was marked by a special event, something unexplained and inexplicable that no one has forgotten. Put aside the rumors which agitated people overexcite ports and public opinion of the continents, boats, foremen and patterns in Europe and Asia, the Navy officers from all countries and governments of the various states the two continents were delivered to the event.

But this increased when the boat Scotland on 13 April 1867, being quietly at sea felt like something he stumbled so mild that notice not only in the engine room, install a des because they informed the captain the boat capsized.

Logically this news was the straw that broke the camel because the phenomenon was becoming hostile, which led to the US Navy for a boat will give chase, this is where comes in three characters that does not leave the scene until the end of the book being Professor Aronnax, his assistant Conseil and the harpooner Ned Land, the professor and his assistant invite you to take part in this expedition while I was harpooner crew. After walking to several leagues across the ocean, they encountered the monster or the artifact but when he was attacked by throwing on the deck with water pipes and power such that in just a second half cuvette do deserted of staff. This boat shot Ned Land and Conseil Aronnx, after a long night was rescued by him showed.

What did they discover? He showed that he is a machine driven by electricity, built by human hands be defying all physical and chemical law. A machine that can soak up to 19 000 leagues withstand pressures impressive variants as well as ocean temperatures and deep seas that could be hot or cold, can be without renewing your indoor air up to 72 hours, and have a capacity for a crew of 600 men, who need to take food, clothing, paper, ink, snuff, and a large etc. Of the land and the sea that provides all you need for it to be rare or unique.

But who had built, where and in charge of this machine who was? Soon discover… The first is that the monster is called Nautilus and Captain Nemo who built them. And this moment des begin a travel through the imagination of this cold man running along the Pacific, the Indian Ocean, the Red Sea, the Mediterranean, the Atlantic, the Southern and northern seas. And visiting the submarine hunt, the Torres Strait, the savages of Papua, the grounding, the coral cemetery, the passage of Suez, imprisonment in the ice, Santoril Island, Vigo Bay, Atlantis, pack ice, the South Pole, the struggle of the Octopus, the tempest of the Gulf Stream, the Avenger ... And that horrible wreck scene with his crew ...! All these events were held in ten months and around the globe with a total of 20 000 Leagues.

Nemo being my favorite character, deserves more description carved. A disciple of Gratioler or Engen had read in his face like an open book. I certainly recognize its key qualities: confidence, as their head stood nobly in the arc formed by the line of the shoulders, and his dark eyes were cold security; calm, as their skin, pale rather than colored, announcing the tranquility of the blood; the value, finally, for his wide breath denoted a vital expansion.

I would add that this man was proud, his gaze reviewed seemed to reflect lofty thoughts, and that of cough this set, the homogeneity of expression in the actions of body and face, following the observation of physiognomy, was an undeniable frankness.

Around the Moon- Julio Verne

Original title: Autour de la Lune.

Is the continuation of The Moon Travel wing where Barbicanne Impey, Michel Ardan, Nochll. Into the bullet or racing car that would take them to the moon with all its equipment that Michel Ardan swelled with animals than anyone expected, but during the trip ran into a meteor that diverted them a few degrees preventing their landing that turned them on Moon when they completed their circumference discovering that you can not not-had inhabited water etc. And there was more that they were going to die in this state at the last minute decided to change your route on the moon falling but could be because when you turn on the rocket base the ship turned towards the earth with his incredible speed setting that would survive entry into the atmosphere should fall into the water would shatter.

From the Earth to the Moon-Julio Verne

Original title: De la Terre à la Lune

The story addresses the situation of inactivity, of the Gun Club. And remember its most splendid days, a conversation between some passionate tireless workers, who indulged in a ballistic calculations, and thought only to improve the weapons they already Avian created, but the absence of war, no a vow and put a plan in vain as some cause.
The Gun Club was founded in Baltimore, Maryland City during the American Civil War, military conflict that took place from 1861-1865; Between the United States of America (the Union and eleven states;.. Southern secessionists organized as the Confederate States of America (the Confederacy in the South East conflict is also known as; "war between the states" And another. most popular name is, "the Civil War".
In this time of conflict it was founded with the goal of creating weapons of all kinds, of all calibers and especially not unimaginable forces, exceeding the (European or the old Continent)
When everything seemed that the Gun Club was closing, comes a letter from President Impey Barbicane, asking them to join him in Baltimore, to make them aware of communication most important: It is carrying a projectile to "Luna" the idea was to fuck with enthusiasm by all members of the Gun Club, who were about five thousand people, the population of the United States generates.

Naturally you have to think about all the difficulties this entailed, astronomical, industrial, mechanical ... The time needed to build the missile and its cannon and especially economic, to be overcome before; "December 1 of the year following eleven least thirteen minutes and twenty seconds, we are October 7," and any delay would mean that they would wait 18 years for the "moon" was again under favorable conditions for the launch Missile.

A real adventure against time and especially when Michel Ardan, a French telegraph to President Impey Barbicane, asking to modify the projectile to allow the transport of a person, the news creates excitement around the world, and how do you the same character It happens to be accompanied by two other people. A real moon adventure !