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Photo
of Jules Verne |
Caricature showing Jules Verne
playing with the
world |
ABOUT JULES
VERNE
(It is a
French name—this is the Correct
spelling !)
Jules
Verne was born
in
He wrote
in French. His books became
very famous and
popular.
The books
were translated into many
languages, and printed
in many countries
al around the
world.
His Adventures
books, Like "Around the
world in 80
days" describe trips
in many countries.
He himself traveled
few times in
Europe, and once
in America. He
could describe well
India, China or
Japan only because
he read many
books about them.
In his Science-Fiction books
he imagined things
that did not
exist in his
time.
----In "20
thousand miles under
the seas" he
described a submarine
that had electric
motor and could
go under the
oceans.
----In "From earth
to the moon" he
tells about people
traveling to the
moon and back
in a rocket.
----In other
books he wrote
about airplanes and
helicopters.
All these
things really happened 50
or 100 years
later, but he
wrote about them
from his imagination !
ABOUT "AROUND THE WORLD
IN 80 DAYS"
This book
was written in
1872, and it
is Jules Verne
most famous book.
The idea for
the story came
to Jules Verne when
he heard about
an American, George Francis Train, who made a
similar trip in
1870.
Such a trip
was really possible
in that time.
There were already trains,
ships crossing the
oceans, and Indians
were still attacking
trains in America……..
In 1889,
an American woman
by the name
of Nellie Bly tried to
beat Fog's record
(which was really 79
days !). She left
from New-York to
London, and followed
Fog's route back
to New-York. She
made it in
only 72 days
and became an America
hero.
George Train
and Nellie Bly were both
activists in the
women suffrage (the
right to vote )
movement.
Joules Verne
died on Mar
24, 1905.
In few
months it will
be exactly 100
years to his
death. All
his lovers and
admirers around the
world will remember
him than, and
there will be
special meetings to
talk about him
and his books.
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The
cover of the first
French edition, 1872 |