Jules Verne
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English
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Countless generations have thrilled to these stirring tales of adventure and derring-do. The Whole Story series adds to these enduringly popular tales with extended captions that provide the background information modern readers could otherwise access only through research. In Around the World in Eighty Days, intrepid Phileas Fogg tries a record-breaking race around the globe.
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This nineteenth-century tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and the undersea world, anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century. The adventures of a French scientist and his companions who travel the seven seas as prisoners in the submarine of the mysterious Captain Nemo.
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[2016]
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English
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In this graphic retelling of the classic novel, Phileas Fogg bets his friends in London that in the year 1872 he can travel around the world in eighty days--and he and his personal attendant, Passepartout, find danger and romance on the journey.
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c2008
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English
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Scientist Pierre Aronnax and his trusty servant set sail to hunt a monster. With help from Ned Land, the world's greatest harpooner, the men soon discover that the creature is really a high-tech submarine. To keep this secret from being revealed, the sub's leader, Captain Nemo, takes the men hostage.