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L’année 1866 fut marquée par un événement bizarre, un phénomène inexpliqué et inexplicable que personne n’a sans doute oublié. Sans parler des rumeurs qui agitaient les populations des ports et surexcitaient l’esprit public à l’intérieur des continents, les gens de mer furent particulièrement émus. Les négociants, armateurs, capitaines de navires, skippers et masters de l’Europe et de l’Amérique, officiers des marines militaires de tous pays, et, après eux, les gouvernements des divers États des
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Finally finished! I think my problem with this one is that the narrative gets bogged down in the technical jargon -- scientific names, degrees longitude and latitude, etc. I feel like I might have more enjoyed an abridged children's version. 😐
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Sep 09, 2020
Ketutar Jensen
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review of another edition
Shelves:
1000-soleils,
series
I read everything by Jules Verne when I was young, 10 and so. I was already then seduced by the amount of information... he can really drop information, huge amounts, in the middle of the story, without it taking anything away from it, on the contrary.
This time, 4 decades later, I kept remembering that Jules Verne didn't write adventure novels, he wrote science fiction... in the purest meaning of the term. He loved geography, technology, scientific inventions and discoveries, everything about t ...more
This time, 4 decades later, I kept remembering that Jules Verne didn't write adventure novels, he wrote science fiction... in the purest meaning of the term. He loved geography, technology, scientific inventions and discoveries, everything about t ...more
I loved this book. My only draw back was the zoology and the geography lessons that went on for pages. I found it distracting.
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Aug 25, 2017
m00ngrrrl
marked it as to-read
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Shelves:
the-final-frontier,
arr-sea-stories
Oct 05, 2018
Claire
marked it as to-read
