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Classic adventure novel, in the original French. According to Wikipedia: "Jules Gabriel Verne (February 8, 1828â€"March 24, 1905) was a French author who pioneered the science-fiction genre. He is best known for novels such as 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 air travel and practical submarines were invented, and before practical means of space travel had been devised. He is the third most translated author in the world, according to Index Translationum. Some of his books have been made into films. Verne, along with H. G. Wells, is often popularly referred to as the "Father of Science Fiction"
Customer Review: Lost for the English language?
This is a very good adventure book. Captain Grant is lost at sea, and nobody knows where. From a partial, damaged message, his children and friends try to figure out where he may be. This takes them first to South America, the remote parts of Argentina and Chile. They experience wild adventures, but can't find him. Ultimately, they go to Australia and New Zealand, adventure after adventure. Though not one the most famous classics by Verne, this is a very good book, interesting to read, and fun. It is a pity English-speaking youths can not enjoy it.
Customer Review: And old memory and a surprise
I was searching this title for my son. As for myself, I read this book more than 20 years ago. A fascinating adventure, the Grant children searching for their father, lost at sea, with only a partly damaged message found in a bottle as a mean to find where he is. Verne takes us throughout the different parts of the world in an exciting journey, which makes one oblivious of satellites, GPS, radio, and all that, but revives the not so lost instinct of the explorer and adventurer in each of us. But this is an old memory of a book from my childhood. And the surprise, well...It seems that I can't find this book in English.
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