Books by Jules Vernes

I slutningen af 1860'erne sætter fregatten "Abraham Lincoln" ud fra New York for at eftersøge en berygtet kæmpehval. Hvalen viser sig imidlertid at være undervandsbåden "Nautilus", der ledes af den hemmelighedsfulde Kaptajn Nemo.En verdensomsejling under havet, Jules Vernes’ berømte klassiker fra 1869, er i denne udgave oversat og bearbejdet af Arne Herløv Petersen.

Axel bor i Hamborg sammen med sin onkel, professor Lidenbrock. Den lidt sære professor er en respekteret forsker og kendt i hele verden for sin store viden om geologi og mineralogi. Han er desuden kendt som lidenskabelig samler af sjældne bøger.En dag falder han over en 700 år gammel bog. I bogen gemmer der sig et stykke pergament med mystiske runer. Det sender Axel og hans onkel ud på en utrolig ekspedition. En rejse, der begynder på toppen af en islandsk vulkan, som fører dem 160 kilometer under jorden og langt tilbage i tiden – en spændende og ikke ufarlig rejse til jordens indre.Bogen er en bearbejdet udgave af Jules Vernes originalroman Voyage au Centre de la Terre, som udkom i 1864.

Phileas Fogg is English exactitude personified. He eats breakfast at 8:23, shaves at 9:37, and leaves for the Reform club at 11:30. He reads, eats, and doesn‘t travel. But one day, after getting into an argument over an article in the Daily Telegraph, he is prompted to make the £20.000 wager with his club friends that he can travel all the way around the world in eighty days. And so he leaves, accompanied only by his new French valet Passepartout: it is 8:45 P.M. on Wednesday the 2nd of October 1872 and he fully intends to be back by the 21st of December. Around the World in 80 days is one of French author Jules Verne most famous works. Published in 1873, it was adapted into the 2005 movie featuring Jackie Chan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and Owen Wilson.Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a French novelist who mostly wrote adventure fiction inspired by the scientific advances of the 19th century. With the help of editor Pierre-Jules Hetzel he wrote a series of books called "Extraordinary Travels", which includes "Journey to the Center of the Earth" (1864), "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea" (1870), and "Around the World in Eighty Days" (1873). Widely popular with both children and adults, Verne is one of the most translated authors of all times, and still inspires people the world over.