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Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1956
Category : Science fiction, French
ISBN : 9781427026514
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-07-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783368902445
Reproduction of the original.
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2009-04-16
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781427028433
Jules Verne's The Purchase of the North Pole (1889), also published as Topsy Turvy, is a sequel to From the Earth to the Moon. The story explores a bid to purchase the North Pole so that they can have access to the large deposits of coal under it. The resulting devastation and loss of life is the subject of the story, in which Verne airs his thoughts on global warming and energy conservation.
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Science fiction, French
ISBN : 9781427032386
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Jazzybee Verlag
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2014-11-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9783849646059
Jules Verne! Among boys a name to conjure with. What memories of half-forgotten books does it bring back! Journeys into the Interior of the Earth, Voyages on Comets, Journeys to the Moon, Submarine Boats—all are creations of his marvellously inventive brain. The Purchase Of the North Pole is a sequel to " From the Earth to the Moon." J. T. Maston, the secretary of the Gun Club of Baltimore, evolves the plan of changing, by the discharge and subsequent recoil of a huge cannon, the world's axis, so as to lay bare the North Pole and the wealth of minerals which it is supposed to contain. The plan is kept secret, but alimited liability company is formed for the purchase of the Folar cap, all the shares being taken up by members of the Gun Club. When, however, the plan is made known the world becomes alarmed the surface of the earth will be changed, whole countries and peoples will be buried under some thousand feet of water, while Britain and Southern Australia will have only the most rarefied air, and measures are taken for the arrest of the directors of the scheme. They have fled, however, and when their whereabouts become known it is to late, they cannot be stopped, and the world resigns itself to its fate. Let the boys, and their elders, see the result for themselves.
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1410107957
Jules Verne was a French writer; born in Nantes, February 8, 1828. He was educated in his native town; studied law in Paris, where he devoted much attention to dramatic literature. His comedy, Les Pailles Rompues, was performed at the Gymnase in 1850, and Onze Tours de Liege followed. His fame rests upon his scientific romances, which have a touch of extravagance in their treatment. His works, which are widely read, have been translated into English.Among his works are: Five Weeks in a Balloon (1870); A Journey to the Center of the Earth (1872); Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1873); Meridiana, the Adventures of Three Englishmen and Three Russians in South Africa (1873); From the Earth to the Moon Direct in Ninety-seven Hours, Twenty Minutes, and a Trip Round It (1873); The Fur Country, or Seventy Degrees North Latitude (1874); Around the World in Eighty Days (1874); A Floating City and The Blockade Runners (1874); The English at the North Pole (1874); Dr. Ox's Experiment (1874); A Winter Amid the Ice (1875); The Mysterious Island (1875); The Survivors of the "Chancellor" (1875); Michael Strogoff, the Courier of the Czar (1876); The Child of the Cavern (1877); Hector Servadac, or the Career of a Comet (1877); Dick Sands, the Boy Captain (1878); Le Rayon Vert (1882); Kera-ban-le-teta (1883); LEtoile du Sud (1884); Le Plays de Diamants (1884); Le Chemin de France (1887); Deux Ans de Vaccances (1888); Famille Sans Nom (1889); Caesar Cascabel (1890); Mathias Sautlorf (1890); Nord Contre Sud (1890); The Purchase of the North Pole (1890); Claudius Bombamac (1892); A Castle in the Carpathians (1892).
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1971-12-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0685065928
Author : Michael Bright
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 65 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780711254749
Fully-illustrated and with a fun and innovative flip-book format, the book provides the perfect way to explore and compare the extreme environments of the two Poles. Take a trip to the ends of the earth and discover the extreme environments of the North and South Poles. Find out which animals live where, what the weather and climate is like and the effect global warming is having. Beginning with the North Pole, the book introduces the geography and climate of the Arctic. Readers will discover how climate change is affecting sea ice and why multi-year ice is so important to walruses and polar bears. Find out what ice floes are and what lives under the ice. The many uses of the Arctic are explained, from the home it provides to whale hunters to the rocket and missile test sites it houses. And then flip the book over and you arrive in the South Pole... The famous race to reach the pole in 1911 is retold and readers will discover why the orca is the ultimate polar predator. The huge tabular icebergs, sub-glacial lakes, and ice chimneys of the Antarctic are brought to life in all their impressive glory, not to mention the sea spiders, 'death star' starfish and other undersea giants!
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1966
Category : Science fiction, French
ISBN : 9781427037305
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 125 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547025177
The Purchase of the North Pole or is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, published in 1889. This novel continues the story of the Baltimore Gun Club. The group of heroes first appeared in From the Earth to the Moon and later in Around the Moon. It features the same characters but is set twenty years later. In his later books, Verne tempers his love of science and engineering and adds a good dose of irony about their potential for harmful abuse and the fallibility of human endeavors. This book is a great exemplar of this philosophy.
Author : Jules Verne
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019-11-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1406898635
Verne (1828-1905) was a French novelist, playwright and poet. He quit his early profession as a lawyer to write for magazines and the stage, and his collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the Voyages extraordinaires, a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including Journey to the Centre of the Earth (1864), Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870), and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). Whilst he is considered a major literary author in France and most of Europe, his reputation is markedly different in English-speaking countries where he is more often perceived as a writer of genre fiction or children's books, largely because of the highly abridged and altered translations of his works. First published in the original French as Sans dessus dessous in 1889, The Purchase of the North Pole is the third book in his Baltimore Gun Club series all featuring the same characters. The previous two titles were From the Earth to the Moon (1865) and A Trip to the Moon and Around It (1870). This anonymous English translation includes three illustrations.
Author : Gillian Turner
Publisher : The Experiment
Page : 326 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2011-01-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781615191321
This “fantastic story” of one of physics’ great riddles takes us through centuries of scientific history (Simon Lamb, author of Devil in the Mountain). Why do compass needles point north—but not quite north? What guides the migration of birds, whales, and fish across the world’s oceans? How is Earth able to sustain life under an onslaught of solar wind and cosmic radiation? For centuries, the world’s great scientists have grappled with these questions, all rooted in the same phenomenon: Earth’s magnetism. Over two thousand years after the invention of the compass, Einstein called the source of Earth’s magnetic field one of greatest unsolved mysteries of physics. Here, for the first time, is the complete history of the quest to understand the planet’s attractive pull—from the ancient Greeks’ fascination with lodestone to the geological discovery that the North Pole has not always been in the North—and to the astonishing modern conclusions that finally revealed the true source. Richly illustrated and skillfully told, North Pole, South Pole unfolds the human story behind the science: that of the inquisitive, persevering, and often dissenting thinkers who unlocked the secrets at our planet’s core. “In recent years, many very good books for interested non-scientists have been published: Richard Dawkins’s Climbing Mount Improbable and The Ancestor’s Tale, Stephen Jay Gould’s The Lying Stones of Marrakech, and Dava Sobel’s Longitude and The Planets, to name some of them. North Pole, South Pole . . . is a worthy addition to that list . . . Turner has a great story to tell, and she tells it well.” —The Press (New Zealand)
Author : Noel Manning,Diana Manning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-09-12
Category : Christmas
ISBN : 1595308644
A story of Santa Claus and his elves.
Author : Danielle Heufemann,Arcadio Lobato
Publisher : Brighter Child
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1561893099
When a little polar bear named Peter finds Santa's red cap in the snow, he sets off to return it and along the way discovers a secret about Santa.
Author : Robert Edwin Peary
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 483 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 9781465553287
It may not be inapt to liken the attainment of the North Pole to the winning of a game of chess, in which all the various moves leading to a favorable conclusion had been planned in advance, long before the actual game began. It was an old game for me—a game which I had been playing for twenty-three years, with varying fortunes. Always, it is true, I had been beaten, but with every defeat came fresh knowledge of the game, its intricacies, its difficulties, its subtleties, and with every fresh attempt success came a trifle nearer; what had before appeared either impossible, or, at the best, extremely dubious, began to take on an aspect of possibility, and, at last, even of probability. Every defeat was analyzed as to its causes in all their bearings, until it became possible to believe that those causes could in future be guarded against and that, with a fair amount of good fortune, the losing game of nearly a quarter of a century could be turned into one final, complete success. It is true that with this conclusion many well informed and intelligent persons saw fit to differ. But many others shared my views and gave without stint their sympathy and their help, and now, in the end, one of my greatest unalloyed pleasures is to know that their confidence, subjected as it was to many trials, was not misplaced, that their trust, their belief in me and in the mission to which the best years of my life have been given, have been abundantly justified. But while it is true that so far as plan and method are concerned the discovery of the North Pole may fairly be likened to a game of chess, there is, of course, this obvious difference: in chess, brains are matched against brains. In the quest of the Pole it was a struggle of human brains and persistence against the blind, brute forces of the elements of primeval matter, acting often under laws and impulses almost unknown or but little understood by us, and thus many times seemingly capricious, freaky, not to be foretold with any degree of certainty. For this reason, while it was possible to plan, before the hour of sailing from New York, the principal moves of the attack upon the frozen North, it was not possible to anticipate all of the moves of the adversary. Had this been possible, my expedition of 1905-1906, which established the then "farthest north" record of 87° 6´, would have reached the Pole. But everybody familiar with the records of that expedition knows that its complete success was frustrated by one of those unforeseen moves of our great adversary—in that a season of unusually violent and continued winds disrupted the polar pack, separating me from my supporting parties, with insufficient supplies, so that, when almost within striking distance of the goal, it was necessary to turn back because of the imminent peril of starvation. When victory seemed at last almost within reach, I was blocked by a move which could not possibly have been foreseen, and which, when I encountered it, I was helpless to meet. And, as is well known, I and those with me were not only checkmated but very nearly lost our lives as well. But all that is now as a tale that is told. This time it is a different and perhaps a more inspiring story, though the records of gallant defeat are not without their inspiration. And the point which it seems fit to make in the beginning is that success crowned the efforts of years because strength came from repeated defeats, wisdom from earlier error, experience from inexperience, and determination from them all.