Jules Verne

Eine abenteuerliche Expedition in die Vorgeschichte der Menschheit: die Helden stoßen auf Dinosaurier, Riesenfarne, das Darwinsche 'missing link' und werden beinahe von unterirdischen Strömen verschlungen.

Mit Schiff, Bahn und Elefanten - kurz, mit jedem sich bietenden Transportmittel - jagen Mr. Phileas Fogg und sein Diener Passepartout um die Erde. Aufgrund einer Wette stehen Mr. Foggs Ehre als pünktlich korrekter Gentleman und sein Vermögen auf dem Spiel. Dabei begegnen sie einer indischen Prinzessin - und allerhand Gaunern, die um jeden Preis verhindern wollen, daß Mr. Fogg seine Wette gewinnt.

An American frigate, tracking down a ship-sinking monster, faces not a living creature but an incredible invention -- a fantastic submarine commanded by the mysterious Captain Nemo. Suddenly a devastating explosion leaves just three survivors, who find themselves prisoners inside Nemo's death ship on an underwater odyssey around the world from the pearl-laden waters of Ceylon to the icy dangers of the South Pole . . .as Captain Nemo, one of the greatest villians ever created, takes his revenge on all society.More than a marvelously thrilling drama, this classic novel, written in 1870, foretells with uncanny accuracy the inventions and advanced technology of the twentieth century and has become a literary stepping-stone for generations of science fiction writers.

One day in the Reformer's Club in London, in 1872, Phileas Fogg takes up a wager to journey round the world in 80 days. He is accompanied by his valet, Passepartout, and a detective named Fix, who has been assigned by the Reformer's Club to observe his movements. Showing fortitude and endless resourcefulness, Fogg and his companions narrowly escape from barbarians, hostile mobs and schemers during their journey. Does Fogg win the bet?

The story takes place in May 1863, at the house of Professor Otto Lidenbrock in Hamburg, Germany. While leafing through an initial runic manuscript of an Icelandic saga, Lidenbrock as well as his nephew Axel discover a coded note created in runic program together with the title of a 16th century Icelandic alchemist, Arne Saknussemm. When translated into English, the take note reads: Go down into the crater of Snaefells J kull, what Scartaris's shadow caresses right before the calends of July, O daring traveler, and you will help make it to the middle of the planet. I have done so. Arne Saknussemm Sn fellsj kull.Lidenbrock departs for Iceland right away, choosing the reluctant Axel with him. After a swift excursion via Copenhagen and Kiel, they turn up in Reykjav k. There they employ as their manual Icelander Hans Bjelke, a Danish speaking eiderduck hunter, then traveling overland to the base of Sn fellsj kull.In June which is late that they achieve the volcano and set off into the bowels of the planet, encountering unusual phenomena and many dangers. After going for a wrong turn, they run quite short of Axel and water practically perishes, but Hans saves them all by tapping into a subterranean river, that shoots out a stream of h20 which Axel and Lidenbrock title the "Hansbach" in the guide's honor. douard Riou's illustration of an ichthyosaurus (which is really more like a mosasaurus) fighting a plesiosaurus.Watching the program of the Hansbach, the explorers descend numerous miles and talk to an underground world, with an ocean along with a great ceiling with clouds, in addition to a permanent Aurora providing lighting. The travelers develop a raft out of semipetrified wood as well as set sail. While at ocean, they come across prehistoric fish like Pterichthyodes (here called "Pterichthys") Dipterus (referred to as giant marine and "Dipterides") reptiles from the Age of the Dinosaurs, specifically a Plesiosaurus and an Ichthyosaurus. A super storm threatens to ruin the raft and the passengers of its, but rather throws them onto the web site of an overwhelming fossil graveyard, like bones from the Pterodactylus, Glyptodon, Deinotherium, Megatherium, a mastodon as well as the preserved entire body of a prehistoric male.