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The Blockade Runners
Verne, JulesSaga EgmontCombining romance and adventure, ‘The Blockade Runners’ is set in both Scotland and the south of America, as the American Civil War looks to become a reality. Scottish entrepreneur...
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The Survivors of the Chancellor
Verne, JulesSaga Egmont‘The Survivors of the Chancellor’ is a tale of shipwreck, betrayal, and intrigue. Written as journal entries from the perspective of passenger, JR Kazallon, the story starts innoce...
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Facing the Flag
Verne, JulesSaga Egmont‘Facing the Flag’ is one of the stories that cemented Verne’s reputation as one of the pioneers of science-fiction. It centres around a brilliant scientist, Thomas Roch, who has in...
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The Mutineers of the Bounty by Jules Verne
Verne, JulesSaga EgmontThe Mutineers of the Bounty is a short story by Jules Verne, part of the series The Extraordinary Voyages. It is based on a true story: a mutiny that occured on the Royal Navy vess...
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César Cascabel
Verne, JulesSaga EgmontWhat do you get if you cross a family of French acrobats with the escape of a Russian political prisoner? ‘César Cascabel!’ Despite the outlandish premise, Verne deftly weaves a st...
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Master of the World
Verne, JulesSaga EgmontThe sequel to ‘Robur the Conqueror,’ ‘The Master of the World’ is part of the Extraordinary Voyages series. Narrated by Chief Inspector John Strock, the story starts with strange p...
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Captain Antifer
Verne, JulesSaga EgmontA 17th Century Indiana Jones, ‘Captain Antifer’ details the adventures of the eponymous captain as he strives to inherit the legacy of the wealthy Kamylk Pasha. Aided and abetted b...
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Mathias Sandorf
Verne, JulesSaga EgmontAn homage to Dumas’ ‘The Count of Monte Cristo,’ ‘Mathias Sandorf’ is an action-packed adventure story, complete with coded messages, secret identities, island adventure, and a mys...
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Claudius Bombarnac
Verne, JulesSaga EgmontClaudius Bombarnac is a reporter, tasked with writing a travelogue while aboard the Great Trans-Asiatic Railway. Hoping to spice up his story, he befriends a group of travellers, w...
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The Adventures of Captain Hatteras
Verne, JulesSaga EgmontCaptain Hatteras has one goal remaining in life, to reach the North Pole at all costs. With a purpose built steamship he sets out on the greatest voyage of his life but when their...
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The Green Ray
Verne, JulesSaga Egmont‘The Green Ray’ is a story that exemplifies the age old saying ‘It’s about the journey, not the destination’. The Green Rays, are rare phenomena observable only in certain places o...
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Dick Sands, the Boy Captain
Verne, JulesSaga EgmontCould you be Captain of a whaling ship if all the crew around you died in a tragedy? Would you even want to? And what would you do if the cook on board has plans of his own and wan...
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An Antarctic Mystery
Verne, JulesSaga Egmont‘An Antarctic Mystery’ is a follow up to Edgar Allan Poe’s ‘The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym’, attempting to explain what might have happened to the main characters after the nov...
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Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
Verne, JulesSaga Egmont‘Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon’ follows Joam Garral a Brazilian ranch owner living on the Peruvian border. When his daughter wants to return to their old city of Belem for he...
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Robur the Conqueror
Verne, JulesSaga EgmontStrange happenings are afoot. Flight enthusiasts discuss possibilities of mastering the skies using lighter-than-air craft. A great inventor claims the opposite that mankind can co...
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The Purchase of the North Pole
Verne, JulesSaga EgmontThe gun club of "From the Earth to the Moon" and "Around the Moon" returns after a long retirement. "The Purchase of the North Pole" brings back the three explorers who have come u...
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The Adventures of Captain Hatteras: The English at the North Pole
Verne, JulesSaga EgmontMutiny, shipwrecks, cold, hunger and even polar bears are a part of this exciting adventure. "The English at the North Pole" is the first part of Jules Verne’s novel "The Adventure...
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The Adventures of Captain Hatteras: The Desert of Ice
Verne, JulesSaga EgmontWhy would the Captain jump into a volcano crater? And will he make it back out alive? "The Desert of Ice" is the second part of Jules Verne’s novel "The Adventures of Captain Hatte...
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Off on a Comet
Verne, JulesSaga EgmontJules Verne’s ‘Off on a Comet’ is a science-fiction adventure first published in 1877. After a comet collides with planet earth, several inhabitants of earth are unknowingly carrie...
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A Voyage in a Balloon
Verne, JulesSaga EgmontHow do you handle a basket case at 7000 metres height? That is the question an accomplished and esteemed aeronaut is forced to ask himself in 1850 after his hot air balloon is hija...