Le roman raconte la course autour du monde d'un gentleman anglais, Phileas Fogg, qui a fait le pari d'y parvenir en 80 jours. Il est accompagné par Jean Passepartout, son serviteur français. L'ensemble du roman est un habile...
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A journey into nineteenth-century travel guides to the UK, Europe, and Soviet Union as researched and written by one of England’s most distinguished authors.
In this quirky and illuminating social history, bestselling British author Alan...
Lord et Lady Glenarvan, ainsi que le géographe Paganel, aident Mary et Robert Grant à retrouver leur père qui a fait naufrage sur une île dont on ne connait que la latitude, ce qui les amène à traverser l'Amérique...
Le richissime Chinois Kin-Fo vient de se trouver soudainement ruiné. La vie, qui lui paraissait jusqu'alors insipide, lui devient insupportable. Il contracte une assurance vie de 200 000 dollars en faveur de sa fiancée Lé-ou et du...
London Orbital is Iain Sinclair's voyage of discovery into the unloved outskirts of the city.
Encircling London like a noose, the M25 is a road to nowhere, but when Iain Sinclair sets out to walk this asphalt loop — keeping within the...
The story which is narrated in the following pages came to me from the lips of my old friend Allan Quatermain, or Hunter Quatermain, as we used to call him in South Africa. He told it to me one evening when I was stopping with him at the place he...
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Questo straordinario romanzo presenta non poche analogie con Robinson Crusoe, dello scrittore inglese Defoe, di cui Verne era un grande ammiratore. Anche qui, la situazione è press’a poco la stessa: alcuni naufraghi approdano fortunosamente...
To return to old Magepa. I had known him for many years. The first time we met was in the battle of the Tugela. I was fighting for the king’s son, Umbelazi the Handsome, in the ranks of the Tulwana regiment–I mean to write all that story, for it...
Allan Quatermain has determined to go farther afield than he had ever traveled before, into the depths of the African jungle – on a march inland to the hills between lands controlled by the chiefs Wambe and Nala. Quatermain has heard of the...
Before there was Indiana Jones there was Allan Quartermain: the original explorer, treasure hunter, and adventurer. The Quartermain books have captivated readers for more than a century, spawning more than a dozen movies and a host of imitators....