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The Golden Volcano
''The Golden Volcano'' () is a novel by Jules Verne, edited by his son Michel Verne, and published posthumously in 1906. The story takes place in the middle of the Gold Rush, and features two Canadian, French-Canadian cousins, who inherit a mining claim on the shores of the Klondike River, Klondike. Plot Two Canadians, Summy Skim and Ben Raddle, are unexpectedly bequeathed a mining claim in the Klondike, Yukon, Klondike. They encounter many things such as disaster, disease, and extreme weather. On the way back to Montreal, where the two cousins reside, Ben Raddle and Summy Skim are trapped in a large flood that floods the entire Klondike. Ben has a disease and a broken leg, and needs to be taken to the hospital to be seen by the trustful Dr. Pilcox. Summy Skim and their guide, Bill Steel, bring the unfortunate man to the hospital, where he is healed a few months later. On the way out to a hunt, Summy Skim, Bill Steel, and the trusted Indian, Neluto, discover a man, torn apart, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jules Verne
Jules Gabriel Verne (;''Longman Pronunciation Dictionary''. ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ''Voyages extraordinaires'', a series of bestselling adventure novels including ''Journey to the Center of the Earth'' (1864), ''Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas'' (1870), and ''Around the World in Eighty Days'' (1872). His novels are generally set in the second half of the 19th century, taking into account contemporary scientific knowledge and the technological advances of the time. In addition to his novels, he wrote numerous plays, short stories, autobiographical accounts, poetry, songs, and scientific, artistic and literary studies. His work has been adapted for film and television since the beginning of cinema, as well as for comic books, theater, opera, music and video games. Verne is considered to be an important author in France and most of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Extreme Weather
Extreme weather includes unexpected, unusual, severe weather, severe, or unseasonal weather; weather at the extremes of the historical distribution—the range that has been seen in the past. Extreme events are based on a location's recorded weather history. The main types of extreme weather include heat waves, cold waves, droughts, and heavy precipitation or storm events, such as tropical cyclones. Extreme weather can have various effects, from natural hazards such as floods and landslides to social costs on human health and the economy. Severe weather is a particular type of extreme weather which poses risks to life and property. Weather patterns in a given region vary with time, and so extreme weather can be attributed, at least in part, to the natural Climate variability and change, climate variability that exists on Earth. For example, the El Niño–Southern Oscillation, El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) or the North Atlantic oscillation (NAO) are climate phenomena that i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1906 French Novels
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Novels By Jules Verne
A novel is an extended work of narrative fiction usually written in prose and published as a book. The word derives from the for 'new', 'news', or 'short story (of something new)', itself from the , a singular noun use of the neuter plural of ''novellus'', diminutive of ''novus'', meaning 'new'. According to Margaret Doody, the novel has "a continuous and comprehensive history of about two thousand years", with its origins in the Ancient Greek and Roman novel, Medieval Chivalric romance, and the tradition of the Italian Renaissance novella.Margaret Anne Doody''The True Story of the Novel'' New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 1996, rept. 1997, p. 1. Retrieved 25 April 2014. The ancient romance form was revived by Romanticism, in the historical romances of Walter Scott and the Gothic novel. Some novelists, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Ann Radcliffe, and John Cowper Powys, preferred the term ''romance''. Such romances should not be confused with th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Family Without A Name
''Family Without a Name'' () is an 1889 adventure novel by Jules Verne about the life of a family in Lower Canada (present-day Quebec) during the Lower Canada Rebellion of 1837 and 1838 that sought an independent and democratic republic for Lower Canada. In the book, the two sons of a traitor fight in the Rebellion in an attempt to make up for the crime of their father. Plot Publication history *1889, USA, New York: J.W. Lovell Co, Pub date 1889; first United States edition, as ''A Family Without a Name'' *1889, USA, New York: Munro, Pub date 1889; as ''A Family Without a Name'' *1890, UK, London: Sampson Low, Pub date 1890; first UK edition, as ''A Family Without a Name'' *1963, UK, London: Arco, Pub date 1963; abridged and edited by I.O. Evans in 2 volumes as ''Leader of the Resistance'' and ''Into the Abyss'' *1982, Canada, Toronto: NC Press , Pub date 1982; new translation by Edward Baxter Popular culture The 1978 edition, published at the French publishing house of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Castaways Of The Flag
''The Castaways of the Flag'' (, lit. ''Second Fatherland'', 1900) is an adventure novel written by Jules Verne. The two volumes of the novel were initially published in English translation as two separate volumes: ''Their Island Home'' and ''The Castaways of the Flag''. Later reprints were published under the title ''The Castaways of the Flag''. The story is a sequel to the 1812 book '' The Swiss Family Robinson'' by Johann Wyss, picking up where that novel leaves off. Publication history *May 1923, ''Their Island Home'' and ''The Castaways of the Flag'', London: Sampson Low Plot summary Bibliography * Title ''The Castaways of the Flag: The Final Adventures of the Swiss Family Robinson'' * Authors Jules Verne Jules Gabriel Verne (;''Longman Pronunciation Dictionary''. ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet and playwright. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ''Voyages extraor ..., Johann David ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Chase Of The Golden Meteor
''The Chase of the Golden Meteor'' () is a novel by Jules Verne. It was one of the last novels written by the prolific French hard science fiction pioneer. The book, however, is seen as less an early example of hard science fiction than a social satire lampooning greed, monomania and vanity. Verne first wrote ''La Chasse au météore'' in 1901 and then rewrote it before his death, but it was only published in 1908, three years after the author's death, one of seven such posthumous novels. It concerns the rivalry between two amateur astronomers in the same small American town who spot a new meteor and attempt to claim the credit for themselves. The meteor turns out to be made of gold and thus extremely valuable. Another eccentric amateur scientist, this time an inventor, creates a device which will cause it to fall where he chooses. The book was extensively edited by Verne's son, Michel Verne, who is known to have introduced the character of the inventor, emphasised the romantic ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Survivors Of The "Jonathan"
''The Survivors of the "Jonathan"'', from epguides.com. In French, ''Magellania'', ''En Magellanie'', or ''Les Naufragés du "Jonathan"''. is a novel that was written by in 1897 under the title ''Magellania''. However, it was not published until 1909, after it had been rewritten by Verne's son Michel under the title ''Les naufragés du "Jonathan"''. Plot The novel tells the story of a mysterious man named Kaw-djer. Kaw-djer lives in the land of Magellania, that is, the region around the |
Volcano
A volcano is commonly defined as a vent or fissure in the crust of a planetary-mass object, such as Earth, that allows hot lava, volcanic ash, and gases to escape from a magma chamber below the surface. On Earth, volcanoes are most often found where tectonic plates are diverging or converging, and because most of Earth's plate boundaries are underwater, most volcanoes are found underwater. For example, a mid-ocean ridge, such as the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, has volcanoes caused by divergent tectonic plates whereas the Pacific Ring of Fire has volcanoes caused by convergent tectonic plates. Volcanoes resulting from divergent tectonic activity are usually non-explosive whereas those resulting from convergent tectonic activity cause violent eruptions."Mid-ocean ridge tectonics, volcanism and geomorphology." Geology 26, no. 455 (2001): 458. https://macdonald.faculty.geol.ucsb.edu/papers/Macdonald%20Mid-Ocean%20Ridge%20Tectonics.pdf Volcanoes can also form where there is str ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montreal
Montreal is the List of towns in Quebec, largest city in the Provinces and territories of Canada, province of Quebec, the List of the largest municipalities in Canada by population, second-largest in Canada, and the List of North American cities by population, ninth-largest in North America. It was founded in 1642 as ''Fort Ville-Marie, Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", and is now named after Mount Royal, the triple-peaked mountain around which the early settlement was built. The city is centred on the Island of Montreal and a few, much smaller, peripheral islands, the largest of which is Île Bizard. The city is east of the national capital, Ottawa, and southwest of the provincial capital, Quebec City. the city had a population of 1,762,949, and a Census geographic units of Canada#Census metropolitan areas, metropolitan population of 4,291,732, making it the List of census metropolitan areas and agglomerations in Canada, second-largest metropolitan area in Canada. French l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Klondike, Yukon
The Klondike (; ) is a region of the territory of Yukon, in northwestern Canada. It lies around the Klondike River, a small river that enters the Yukon River from the east at Dawson City. The area is merely an informal geographic region, and has no function to the territory as any kind of Administrative division, administrative region. The Klondike is famed due to the Klondike Gold Rush, which started in 1896 and lasted until 1899. Since then, gold has been mined continuously in that area, except for a pause in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In 2023, the cultural landscape of the Tr’ondëk-Klondike was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, because of its testimony to the adaptation of the Tr’ondëk Hwëch’in people to the European colonization that began in the late 19th century. Climate and ecology Klondike has a subarctic climate (Köppen climate classification, Köppen ''Dfc''), bordering on a tundra climate (Köppen climate classification, Köppen ''ET''). The cl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Roux
George Roux (1853–1929) was a French artist and book illustrator. His best-known works today are a large number of illustrations he created for the science-fiction novels of Jules Verne, in the series ''Voyages Extraordinaires, Les voyages extraordinaires''. He was the second-most prolific illustrator of Verne's novels, after Léon Benett, drawing the illustrations for 22 novels in the original editions of Verne's works with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel. The first of them was ''L’Épave du Cynthia'' (''The Salvage of the Cynthia'', 1885) and the last was ''L'Étonnante aventure de la mission Barsac'' (''The Barsac Mission'', 1919). He also illustrated André Laurie's ''Axel Ebersen, the Graduate of Upsala'' published in instalments in volume 14 (1981–2) of the Boy's Own Paper. References * External links Gallery of illustrations of "''Voyages Extraordinaires''" compiled by the Science-Fiction Studies journal. French illustrators 19th-century French painters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
