Les enfants du capitaine Grant: voyage autour du monde (Captain Grants' Children : A Voyage Round the World)

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CreatorVerne, Jules, 1828-1905Additional creatorRiou, {u00C9}douard, 1833-1900TitleLes enfants du capitaine Grant: voyage autour du monde (Captain Grants' Children : A Voyage Round the World)Date of publication1868DescriptionIn his story Les Enfants du Capitaine Grant published in 1868, Verne even brings his characters to South Australia, specifically to the South East at Cape Bernouilli (now known as Cape Jaffa), and extols the fertility of the soil and the agricultural wealth of the province. But it is for his so-called science fiction that Verne remains most remembered--the exploits of Captain Nemo and his submarine Nautilus, Phileas Fogg, and Professor Barbicane, the volcano Snaefells and many more.

Jules Verne was born in 1828 and died on 24 March 1905. In those 87 years he had accomplished a great deal and built a reputation that has endured to this day. Trained as a lawyer, he was attracted to the theatre where he wrote plays and worked as secretary to the director of the Th

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