Author: Jules Verne
Year: 1886
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Popularity: 1.3
Genres/categories: Science fiction, Classic, Adventure
Culture: France
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ISBN:
9781404328129
9781404328136
9781406501810
9781410100726
9781434651594
9781557429667
9781557429674
9781847537409
1404328122
1404328130
1406501816
1410100723
1434651592
1557429669
1557429677
1847537405 |
 Robur, a character very much like Verne's maybe best-known hero Captain Nemo, tries to build the world's heavier-than-air-ship, the Albatross. He gets all the publicity, which is not very much what one of America's ballon clubs wants him to get. Robur finally captures a few members of the club and off they go on a pretty weird journey around the world ...
About the author:
Jules Verne was a French author who pioneered the genre of science-fiction. He is best known for his novels Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873).
Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before navigable aircraft and practical submarines were invented, and before any means of space travel had been devised. He is the third most translated author of all time, behind Disney Productions and Agatha Christie. His prominent novels have been made into films. Verne, along with H. G. Wells, is often referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction".
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