✅ Poštovné ZADARMO nad 39€ ✅ Knižná akcia každý mesiac ✅Výhodné ceny ✅Bezpečný nákup Wordsworth Editions.: This Wordsworth Edition includes an exclusive Introduction by Alex Dolby, University of Kent at Canterbury
Jules Verne (1828-1905) is internationally famous as the author of a distinctive series of adventure stories describing new travel technologies which opened up the world and provided means to escape from it. The collective enthusiasm of generations of readers of his ‘extraordinary voyages ’ was a key factor in the rise of modern science fiction.
In The Mysterious Island a group of men escape imprisonment during the American Civil War by stealing a balloon. Blown across the world, they are air-wrecked on a remote desert island. In a manner reminiscent of Robinson Crusoe, the men apply their scientific knowledge and technical skill to exploit the island's bountiful resources, eventually constructing a sophisticated society in miniature. The book is also an intriguing mystery story, for the island has a secret…
About the Author
Jordan Stump (Translator) is an associate professor of French at the University of Nebraska Lincoln, and translator of more than half a dozen French novels. His translation of Nobel Prize winning novelist Claude Simon s Le jardin des plantes won the French-American Foundation Translation Prize for 2001. Caleb Carr (Introduction) is the bestselling author of The Alienist and, most recently, The Lessons of Terror. He lives in New York.
--This text refers to the
Mass Market Paperback
edition.
Recenzie a kritiky
Rok vydania:
1996ISBN:
9781840226249Rozmer:
126×199 mmPočet strán:
528Väzba:
brožovanáJazyk: angličtina
