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Book
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Translation
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Thoughts
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| May/June 2024 |
Purchase of the North Pole, Audiobook, read by Tad Davis |
Ron Miller, updated |
Pretty good. Lots of explorer lists, lots of what will happen to which countries, islands, etc.
I'm still not convinced an axis can be changed. And some of the predicted changes, I didn't believe
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| July 2023 |
"The Extraordinary Librairies of Jules Verne" by Arthur B Evans (1988) |
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| July 2023 |
"The Illustrators of Jules Verne's Voyages Extraordinaires" by Arthur B Evans (1998) |
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| July 2023 |
Martin Paz |
Copyright free version from a digital collection |
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| July 2023 |
The First Ships of the Mexican Navy |
Copyright free version from a digital collection |
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| July 2023 |
A Voyage in a Balloon |
Copyright free version from a digital collection |
This shows Jules use of history and previous Balloon voyages to expand the story |
| May 2023 |
The Meteor Hunt
(Jules Verne's Original, not adulterated by Michel Verne) |
Frederick Paul Walter (Editor, Translator) & Walter James Miller (Editor)
Bison Frontiers of Imagination
Bison Books
University of Nebraska Press
2006 |
Again, an enjoyable read. VERY excellent forward, and afterward and Footnotes. A superbe edition. Great story. Cood characters. |
| February 2023 |
Travel Scholarships |
Teri J. Hernandez
Wesleyan University Press
2013 |
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| January 2023 |
The Kip Brothers |
Stanford Luce
Wesleyan University Press
2007 |
It was good to read this after Floating Island.
A lot in common with the South Pacific islands
Very enjoyable. I did know the plot twist at the end, but still found a few twists I didn't see coming. |
| Christmas 2022 |
The Self-Propelled Island |
Marie-Thérèse Noiset,
University of Nebraska Press
2015 |
An enjoyable read. Lots of information of all the Islands they navigate to. |
| Summer 2022 |
The Claim on Forty Mile Creek/
Flood and Flames (modified by Michel Verne) |
I O Evans, Fitzroy Edition
Associated Booksellers |
Happier ending than Vernes |
| Summer 2022 |
The Golden Volcano (Original by Jules) |
Edward Baxter, University of Nebraska Press
2008 |
I liked the Original Verne ending better |
| Early 2022 |
Voyages and Adventures of Captain Hatteras |
???
James R Osgood and Company
1876 |
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| Early 2022 |
The Children of Captain Grant |
Don Sample, self published, 2018/2019 |
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