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1. Jules Verne

Journey to the Centre of the Earth

Tells the story of distinguished but eccentric Professor Lidenbrock, who finds a scrap of parchment in an old manuscript. A cipher written in runes, it tells of an entrance to another world - a world hidden beneath our own, illuminated by an electrified gas and populated by strange, prehistoric beings.

1. Jules , Verne

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea is both a marine adventure and a speculative encyclopedia of the nineteenth-century imagination. Through Professor Aronnax, Conseil, and Ned Land's captivity aboard Captain Nemo's Nautilus, Verne fuses suspenseful travel narrative with meticulous descriptions of oceanography, engineering, and natural history. Written within the ambitious framework of the Voyages extraordinaires, the novel transforms scientific curiosity into romance while also darkening adventure fiction with questions of exile, empire, vengeance, and technological power. Verne, a French writer shaped by the age of exploration, industrial invention, and popular science publishing, possessed a gift for converting contemporary knowledge into prophetic fiction. His fascination with geography, machines, and global travel, combined with his disciplined research and theatrical sense of plot, made Nemo's undersea world plausible as well as mythic. The novel reflects Verne's era: confident in progress, yet uneasy about its moral consequences. This book is highly recommended to readers interested in the origins of science fiction, maritime literature, or adventure narratives with philosophical depth. Its catalogues and technical passages reward patient reading, while Nemo remains one of literature's most compelling enigmas. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea endures because it makes discovery feel wondrous, dangerous, and intellectually serious.

1. Jules Verne

Autour de la Lune

1. Jose Maria , Alarte Duart

JULIO VERNE Y EL MAPA DE LOS DIOSES/ La Novela que Reescribe la Historia de la Humanidad

"Lo que encontró Verne en Egipto no era una tumba... era una advertencia." En 1872, Julio Verne emprendió un viaje secreto que cambiaría la historia de la humanidad. Bajo la Esfinge, descubrió un mapa estelar que conectaba pirámides, cristales de poder y tecnología ancestral perdida. Durante mas de un siglo, esos secretos permanecieron ocultos: diarios cifrados, cartas prohibidas y planos olvidados esperaban ser descifrados. Este libro reconstruye esa obra perdida, revelando: Cómo los mitos antiguos y la ciencia moderna se entrelazan. La existencia de nodos temporales que conectan pasado, presente y futuro. Advertencias sobre la energía que puede doblar la realidad misma. Prepárate para entrar en un mundo donde la historia oficial es solo la superficie, y donde cada descubrimiento puede cambiar tu percepción de la realidad. "Julio Verne y el Mapa de los Dioses" no es solo una novela: es una llave hacia los secretos que los siglos han intentado enterrar.

1. Jose Maria , Alarte Duart

Jules Verne The Transatlantic Tunnel

The Transatlantic Tunnel: The Greatest Engineering Feat in History Year 1890. Europe and America prepare for an unprecedented project: a submarine tunnel crossing the Atlantic, connecting continents and pushing the limits of civil engineering. Guided by the brilliant Dr. Élise Monnier and the visionary Gustave Eiffel, an international team of engineers, explorers, and visionaries will face abyssal pressures, tectonic faults, colossal storms, and human sabotage. But they will not be alone in the depths: a civilization of beings adapted to underwater life, the Abyssals, watches every move beneath the ocean. Will they be allies or adversaries? The Transatlantic Tunnel is an epic of engineering and adventure in the purest Jules Verne style: Science and technology extrapolated from the 19th century Hidden civilizations and creatures from the depths Brave and brilliant protagonists leading international cooperation Adventures, dangers, and discoveries in an unimaginable ocean A story of ingenuity, audacity, and cooperation that proves the most impossible dreams can become reality when humanity and nature work hand in hand. Where two worlds meet in the depths... the true adventure begins.

1. Jose Maria , Alarte Duart

Jules Verne The Mystery of the Eternal Mist

The Mystery of the Eternal Mist In 1884, a French geologist, a Scottish captain, and a group of brave scientists embarked on the expedition of a lifetime: to uncover the secret of the Island of Eternal Mist, a place shrouded in luminous mist and forbidden by Polynesian sailors. Among energy-storing crystals, bioluminescent plants, and miraculous hot springs, the expedition faces extraordinary challenges and an enemy willing to sacrifice ethics for ambition. But the island has its own laws: only those who respect its rhythm and mystery can survive and learn. A tale of adventure, science, and wonder in the pure style of Jules Verne, where curiosity and knowledge meet ethics and respect for nature. "Where science must bow before ancestral wisdom."