THE GREAT TRAVELS & TRAVELLERS - The Incredible True Tales of Celebrated Navigators and Their Journeys (Illustrated) (Annotated)
Enriched Edition. Historical Journeys of Celebrated NavigatorsBy Jules Verne
Length55h 21m
About this audiobook
In THE GREAT TRAVELS & TRAVELLERS, Jules Verne turns from imagined voyages to the documentary romance of real exploration, gathering the feats of celebrated navigators into a sweeping history of maritime discovery. Richly illustrated and written with his characteristic lucidity, the work combines geographical exactitude, narrative momentum, and nineteenth-century confidence in scientific progress. Its accounts of perilous seas, unknown coasts, and cross-cultural encounters place it within the era's popular literature of exploration, while also revealing Verne's gift for transforming factual material into compelling adventure. Jules Verne, the French pioneer of scientific romance, was uniquely equipped to compose such a volume. Though famous for Journey to the Centre of the Earth, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas, and Around the World in Eighty Days, he was also an assiduous researcher, fascinated by maps, machines, natural history, and the expansion of human knowledge. His fiction depended on the credibility of travel literature; here, he honors the sources that nourished his imagination. This book is recommended to readers who value exploration, intellectual history, and classic adventure prose grounded in fact. It offers both a window into the geography of Verne's century and a stirring tribute to the human impulse to chart the unknown.
This enriched edition has been carefully crafted to add value to your reading experience.
- A comprehensive Introduction outlines these selected works' unifying features, themes, or stylistic evolutions.
- The Author Biography highlights personal milestones and literary influences that shape the entire body of writing.
- A Historical Context section situates the works in their broader era—social currents, cultural trends, and key events that underpin their creation.
- A concise Synopsis (Selection) offers an accessible overview of the included texts, helping readers navigate plotlines and main ideas without revealing critical twists.
- A unified Analysis examines recurring motifs and stylistic hallmarks across the collection, tying the stories together while spotlighting the different work's strengths.
- Reflection questions inspire deeper contemplation of the author's overarching message, inviting readers to draw connections among different texts and relate them to modern contexts.
- Lastly, our hand‐picked Memorable Quotes distill pivotal lines and turning points, serving as touchstones for the collection's central themes.
Audiobook details
Rating★★★★ 4.2 (19)
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GenreTravel
Length55 hrs 21 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateNov 23, 2016
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1THE GREAT TRAVELS & TRAVELLERS - The Incredible True Tales of Celebrated Navigators and Their Journeys (Illustrated) (Annotated)
20PART I. (pt. 2)
2Introduction
21PART I. (pt. 3)
3Author Biography
22PART I. (pt. 4)
4Historical Context
23PART II. (pt. 1)
5Synopsis (Selection)
24PART II. (pt. 2)
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6THE GREAT TRAVELS & TRAVELLERS - The Incredible True Tales of Celebrated Navigators and Their Journeys (Illustrated)
25PART II. (pt. 3)
7The Exploration of the World
26PART II. (pt. 4)
8PREFACE.
27The Great Explorers of 19th Century
9PART I. (pt. 1)
28PART I. (pt. 1)
10PART I. (pt. 2)
29PART I. (pt. 2)
11PART I. (pt. 3)
30PART I. (pt. 3)
12PART I. (pt. 4)
31PART I. (pt. 4)
13PART II. (pt. 1)
32PART II. (pt. 1)
14PART II. (pt. 2)
33PART II. (pt. 2)
15PART II. (pt. 3)
34PART II. (pt. 3)
16PART II. (pt. 4)
35PART II. (pt. 4)
17PART II. (pt. 5)
36Analysis
18The Great Navigators of the 18th Century
37Reflection
19PART I. (pt. 1)
38Memorable Quotes
Die fantastischen Reisen: Verne-Abenteuer-ReiheJules Verne735h 24m4.6 (23)$1 · $0.00
50+ Pirate Novels: An Ultimate Collection (Including Great Seafaring Legends)Jules Verne, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, Jeffery Farnol, Howard Pyle, Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, Richard Le Gallienne, Walter Scott, Frederick Ferdinand Moore, Daniel Defoe, Alexandre Dumas, Frederick Marryat, John Masefield, Rafael Sabatini, Harold MacGrath, Joseph Lewis French, Harry Collingwood, Charles Boardman Hawes, L. Frank Baum, J. M. Barrie, R. M. Ballantyne, G. A. Henty, Stephen W. Meader, J. Allan Dunn, Robert E. Howard, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ralph D. Paine, W. H. G. Kingston, William Macleod Raine, Percy F.Westerman481h 59m$1.99 · $0.00
The Greatest Sci-Fi ClassicsJules Verne, H. G. Wells, Mary Shelley, Arthur Conan Doyle, Edgar Allan Poe, Mark Twain, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Edwin A. Abbott, Jack London, Edward Bellamy, Robert Louis Stevenson, George MacDonald, H. Rider Haggard, William Hope Hodgson, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Hugh Benson, David Lindsay, Abraham Merritt179h 33m$2.99 · $0.00
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the SeaJules Verne11h 10m$1.99 · $0.00
Die Entdeckung der ErdeJules Verne, Gabriel Marcel21h 1m4.2 (125)$1 · $0.00
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The Greats of Sci-Fi: H. G Wells EditionJules Verne, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, James Fenimore Cooper, Edgar Allan Poe, William Hope Hodgson, George MacDonald, Percy Greg, Jack London, Arthur Conan Doyle, Ernest Bramah, Jonathan Swift, Cleveland Moffett, William Morris, Anthony Trollope, Richard Jefferies, Samuel Butler, David Lindsay, Edward Everett Hale, Edward Bellamy, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Edgar Wallace, Francis Bacon, Robert Cromie, Abraham Merritt, Ignatius Donnelly, Owen Gregory, H. G. Wells, Stanley G. Weinbaum, Fred M. White, H. P. Lovecraft, Garrett P. Serviss, Henry Rider Haggard, Mary Shelley, Malcolm Jameson, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Otis Adelbert Kline, C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne, Edwin A. Abbott, Arthur Dudley Vinton, Gertrude Barrows Bennett, Hugh Benson, Margaret Cavendish772h 5m$1.99 · $0.00
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Will's Red CoatTom Ryan8h 23m4.5 (2.3K)$26 · $0.00
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The Travelling ApeMichael Mackay Richards12h 24m4.6 (175)$25
Little PrincesConor Grennan9h 38m4.3 (27.6K)$29 · $0.00
We are Soldiers StillHarold G. Moore, Joseph L. Galloway7h 46m4.4 (2.4K)$26 · $0.00
The Road to San DonatoRobert Cocuzzo7h 29m4.4 (397)$17 · $0.00
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