Jules Verne
Author
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
183 p. ; 23 cm.
Description
Geologist Otto Lidenbrock is perusing an ancient Icelandic manuscript when he discovers a mysterious encrypted note. The message reveals the account of a sixteenth-century explorer who claims to have found a passageway to the center of the earth. In his quest to penetrate the planet's primordial secrets, the impetuous professor, together with his quaking nephew, Axel, and their devoted guide, Hans, sets off immediately for Iceland. Descending through...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[1993].
Physical Desc
xv, 185 pages ; 18 cm.
Description
Written almost a century before the daring flights of the astronauts, Jules Verne's prophetic novel of man's race to the stars is a story of rip-roaring action, humor, and wild imagination. With broad satire as well as scientific acumen, From the Earth to the Moon spins a tale set in 1865 about a group of men who decide to build a gun big enough to launch a rocket to the moon.
Author
Series
STEAM tales volume 2
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
143 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 23 cm.
Description
This is the classic adventure story written by Jules Verne about Phileas Fogg and his French valet attempting to travel around the world in 80 days adapted with STEAM related activities at the end of each chapter.
Author
Pub. Date
2021
Physical Desc
415 pages ; 23 cm
Description
"La Academia Harding-Pencroft no es un instituto normal: de sus clases salen los mejores exploradores submarinos y los navegantes m̀s prestigiosos del mundo, que compiten en condiciones extremas divididos entre las casas Delf̕n, Cefal̤podo, Orca y Tibur̤n. Ana Dakkar, una brillante estudiante de primer ąo, est̀ preparada para la misteriosa prueba de final de curso... hasta que una terrible tragedia cambia su destino para siempre. En una carrera...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With good reason to believe that Captain Grant, skipper of the S.S. Brittania, is still alive, Lord Glenarvan, owner of the Steam Navigation Company, sets out to rescue him. They face a series of hair-raising incidents as they travel the 37th parallel.
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (420 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
London, 1872. Phileas Fogg lives a comfortable but utterly unfulfilling life in London, spending every day at his club with his friends Fortescue and Bellamy. But when he receives a hand-delivered postcard, with only the word 'COWARD' written on the back, it turns his world upside down.
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(ca. 92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Science professor Trevor Anderson's radical theories have tarnished his reputation. While backpacking across Iceland with his nephew Sean, the two find a cave that leads them deep down into the bowels of the planet. They go on a quest to find out what has happened to Trevor's missing brother, also a scientist. Trevor, Sean and their mountain guide discover a fantastic and dangerous lost world in the center of the earth. There, they discover a bizarre...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 216 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
That Man From Rio: First, thieves ignore jewels to steal an Amazon figurine from the Museum of Man in Paris's Trocadero Palace and kidnap the world's authority on the lost Maltec civilization. Up to His Ears: Unhappy billionaire Belmondo, whose suicide attempts keep failing, hires some killers to do him in. He falls in love with beautiful Andress and wants to reverse the deal.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (127 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A trouble-shooting 19th century seaman is trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Teaming with a scientist and a diver, they set sail to investigate. They are promptly captured by the megalomaniacal Captain Nemo, who skippers a lavish, scientifically advanced submarine.
Pub. Date
©2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In a lively discussion with Lord Kelvin, inventor Phileas Fogg states his belief that it's possible for someone to travel around the globe in a mere 80 days. Kelvin challenges him to prove it, and adds a wager: if Fogg can't circumnavigate the globe in 80 days, he'll have to give up inventing forever. Fogg and his crew of two take the challenge. They travel by train, boat, balloon, horseback, or any other means at their disposal. However, Fogg and...