Jules Verne
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 2
Formats
Description
In London, 1872, a man named Phileas Fogg makes a bet with his friends that he can travel across the entire planet in eighty days. The wager? More than half his sizable fortune -- and the exact same amount of money that was stolen from a nearby bank a day earlier. Fogg hastily departs in the company of Passepartout, his personal attendant, on a journey that will take the two men all over the wide world by way of every known means of transportation....
Author
Series
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
1998
Description
Retells the adventures of a French professor and his two companions as they sail above and below the world's oceans as prisoners on the fabulous electric submarine of the deranged Captain Nemo. Illustrated notes throughout the text explain the historical background of the story.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Formats
Description
Science professor Trevor Anderson's radical theories have tarnished his reputation. While backpacking across Iceland with his nephew Sean, the two find a cave that leads them deep down into the bowels of the planet. They go on a quest to find out what has happened to Trevor's missing brother, also a scientist. Trevor, Sean and their mountain guide discover a fantastic and dangerous lost world in the center of the earth. There, they discover a bizarre...
Author
Series
Publisher
Baronet Books
Pub. Date
1992
Description
This nineteenth-century tale of an electric submarine, its eccentric captain, and the undersea world, anticipated many of the scientific achievements of the twentieth century. The adventures of a French scientist and his companions who travel the seven seas as prisoners in the submarine of the mysterious Captain Nemo.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Description
In a lively discussion with Lord Kelvin, inventor Phileas Fogg states his belief that it's possible for someone to travel around the globe in a mere 80 days. Kelvin challenges him to prove it, and adds a wager: if Fogg can't circumnavigate the globe in 80 days, he'll have to give up inventing forever. Fogg and his crew of two take the challenge. They travel by train, boat, balloon, horseback, or any other means at their disposal. However, Fogg and...
Publisher
E1 Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
"Phileas Fogg wages his entire fortune that he can travel around the entire globe in eighty days. But before departing on his fantastic journey, the Bank of London is robbed, and he becomes the prime suspect. Pursued by Detective Fix, Fogg must race against time to win the bet and prove his innocence."--Container.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c1954
Description
A trouble-shooting 19th century seaman is trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Teaming with a scientist and a diver, they set sail to investigate. They are promptly captured by the megalomaniac Captain Nemo, who skippers a lavish, scientifically advanced submarine.
Author
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
After a scientist discovers he has reached the center of the Earth, he must help his nephew and a friend travel through a world of strange creatures to get back to the surface; after deciphering a code that leads to a legendary island where his grandfather is lost, a teenage boy partners with his stepfather to find the island and rescue his grandfather.
Author
Series
Wishbone classics volume 9
Publisher
HarperPaperbacks
Pub. Date
1996
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 4
Description
A retelling of the Jules Verne classic in which a group of people journey into the crater of a volcano to find the center of the earth.
Author
Series
Publisher
Stone Arch Books
Pub. Date
2008
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 3 - AR Pts: 1
Description
Scientist Pierre Aronnax and his trusty servant set sail to hunt a monster. With help from Ned Land, the world's greatest harpooner, the men soon discover that the creature is really a high-tech submarine. To keep this secret from being revealed, the sub's leader, Captain Nemo, takes the men hostage. Now, each man must decide whether to trust Nemo or try to escape his underwater world.
Series
Classics illustrated). Joint European volume no. 26
Publisher
Classic Comic Store
Pub. Date
2010.
Description
Classics Illustrated tells the adventures of Captain Nemo and his captives and crew on his submarine, the Nautilus in colorful comic strip form, providing a simplified introduction for younger readers. The book also includes theme discussions and study questions.
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