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The Self-Propelled Island

2015-07-01 Fiction
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Release : 2015-07-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 866/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Self-Propelled Island by : Jules Verne

Download or read book The Self-Propelled Island written by Jules Verne. This book was released on 2015-07-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Self-Propelled Island is the first unabridged English translation of Jules Verne's original story featuring a famous French string quartet that is abducted by an American businessman and taken to Standard Island to perform for its millionaire inhabitants. The quartet soon discovers that Standard Island is not an island at all, but an immense, futuristic ship possessing all the features of an idyllic haven. Equipped with the most opulent amenities, Standard Island travels the Pacific Ocean, traversing the south archipelagos and stopping at many "sister" islands for the pleasure of its well-heeled inhabitants. These inhabitants soon meet with the danger, in its various forms, that is inherent in ocean travel. Meanwhile, the French quartet is witness to the rivalry that exists between the two most powerful families onboard, a rivalry that keeps the future of the island balancing on the edge of a knife. First published in English in 1896, the novel was originally censored in translation. Dozens of pages were cut from the story because English translators felt they were too critical of Americans as well as the British. Here, for the first time, readers have the pleasure of reading The Self-Propelled Island as Verne intended it.

The Floating Island

2009-03 Fiction
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Release : 2009-03
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 821/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Floating Island by : Jules Verne

Download or read book The Floating Island written by Jules Verne. This book was released on 2009-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A French string quartet traveling from San Francisco to their next engagement in San Diego, is diverted to Standard Island. Standard Island is an immense man-made island designed to travel the waters of the Pacific Ocean. The wealth of residents of the island can only be measured in millions. The quartet is hired to play a number of concerts for the residents during their tour of the islands (Sandwich, Cook, Society, etc.) of the South Pacific. The island seems an idyllic paradise; however, it is an island divided in two. The left half's population is led by Jem Tankerdon and is known as the Larboardites. The right half's population is led by Nat Coverley and is known as the Starboardites. Despite the obstacles encountered on their journey, the two parties have a disagreement that threatens the future of the island itself.

The Island at the End of Everything

2017-05-04 Juvenile Fiction
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Release : 2017-05-04
Genre : Juvenile Fiction
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Book Rating : 473/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Island at the End of Everything by : Kiran Millwood Hargrave

Download or read book The Island at the End of Everything written by Kiran Millwood Hargrave. This book was released on 2017-05-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ami lives on Culion, an island for people who have leprosy. Her mother is infected. She loves her home - but then islanders untouched by sickness are forced to leave. Ami's desperate to return before her mother's death. She finds a strange and fragile hope in a colony of butterflies. Can they lead her home before it's too late?

The Geography of Bliss

2008-01-03 Travel
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Release : 2008-01-03
Genre : Travel
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Book Rating : 072/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Geography of Bliss by : Eric Weiner

Download or read book The Geography of Bliss written by Eric Weiner. This book was released on 2008-01-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now a new series on Peacock with Rainn Wilson, THE GEOGRAPHY OF BLISS is part travel memoir, part humor, and part twisted self-help guide that takes the viewer across the globe to investigate not what happiness is, but WHERE it is. Are people in Switzerland happier because it is the most democratic country in the world? Do citizens of Qatar, awash in petrodollars, find joy in all that cash? Is the King of Bhutan a visionary for his initiative to calculate Gross National Happiness? Why is Asheville, North Carolina so damn happy? In a unique mix of travel, psychology, science and humor, Eric Weiner answers those questions and many others, offering travelers of all moods some interesting new ideas for sunnier destinations and dispositions.

Island of Wings

2011-12-27 Fiction
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Release : 2011-12-27
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 662/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Island of Wings by : Karin Altenberg

Download or read book Island of Wings written by Karin Altenberg. This book was released on 2011-12-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dazzling debut novel of love and loss, faith and atonement, on an untamed nineteenth-century Scottish island. Exquisitely written and profoundly moving, Island of Wings is a richly imagined novel about two people struggling to keep their love, and their family, alive in a place of extreme hardship and unearthly beauty. Everything lies ahead for Lizzie and Neil McKenzie when they arrive at the St. Kilda islands in July of 1830. Neil is to become the minister to the small community of islanders, and Lizzie-bright, beautiful, and devoted-is pregnant with their first child. As the two adjust to life at the edge of civilization, where the natives live in squalor and babies perish mysteriously, their marriage-and their sanity-are soon threatened.

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