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.

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 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 !

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