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A group of British colonists travels through nineteenth century India in a house on wheels, drawn by a steam engine in the shape of an elephant. This book recounts their many adventures during the aftermath of the Indian Mutiny of 1857. It also explores the disappearance of Nana Sahib – the Indian mutiny leader, a hero to Indians but a fiend for the British. Nana Sahib had vanished after the recapture of Kanpur by the British, and his fate thereafter was ...
Journey to the Centre of the Earth is an adaptation from the French novel Voyage au centre de la Terre published in 1864. It is the second in the popular science fiction series Voyages extraordinaires. An impetuous German professor, Otto Lidenbrock, discovers an encoded manuscript wherein is mentioned the passageway to the centre of the earth. Otto prepares a roller-coaster expedition on the basis of the same and is accompanied by his faithful nephew, Axel, and ...
Round the world in Eighty Days, published in 1873, brought Jules Verne (1828-1905) to the height of his fame and prosperity, although his earlier successes, A Journey to the Centre of the Earth and Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea, were no less popular. Mr Phileas Fogg, a gentleman of means of the most exact habits and unruffled temperament, lays a bet of $ 20, 000 at the Reform Club in London that he will make a trip round the world by steamship, railway ...
Around the World in Eighty Days, a classic novel by the French writer Jules Verne, was first published in 1873. Set in the early 1800’s, before there were planes or high speed vehicles so that it took a long time to travel, this book is a fascinating adventure story filled with action and romance. The main character in this story is Phileas Fogg, a wealthy Englishman. He made a bet that he could travel around the world in no more then 80 days. ...