Download or read book The Journey Home and Other Stories written by Malachi Whitaker and published by . This book was released on 2017-10-19 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Grounded written by Seth Stevenson and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2010-04-06 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An eye-opening and fascinating slow travel journey from an acclaimed writer who circled the globe without ever leaving the ground. In this age of globalism and high-speed travel, Seth Stevenson, the witty, thoughtful Slate columnist, takes us back to a time when travel meant putting one foot in front of the other, racing to make connections between trains and buses in remote transit stations, and wading through the chaos that most long-haul travelers float 35,000 feet above. Stevenson winds his way around the world by biking, walking, hiking, riding in rickshaws, freight ships, cruise ships, ancient ferries, buses, and the Trans-Siberian Railway-but never gets on an airplane. He finds that from the ground, one sees the world anew-with a deeper understanding of time, distance, and the vastness of the earth. In this sensational travelogue, each step of the journey is an adventure, full of unexpected revelations in every new port, at every bend in the railroad tracks, and around every street corner.
Download or read book A Voyage to Arcturus written by David Lindsay and published by Sheba Blake Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2022-11-04 with total page 629 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you're interested in science fiction but crave something with a little more intellectual heft than your typical space opera, give David Lindsay's A Voyage to Arcturus a try. Widely praised by critics as one of the most philosophically advanced science fiction novels, the book follows two intrepid spiritual seekers through a series of remarkable interstellar adventures. As part of our mission to publish great works of literary fiction and nonfiction, Sheba Blake Publishing Corp. is extremely dedicated to bringing to the forefront the amazing works of long dead and truly talented authors.
Download or read book Voyage to Alpha Centauri written by Michael D. O'Brien and published by Ignatius Press. This book was released on 2013-11-04 with total page 765 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set eighty years in the future, this novel by the best-selling author Michael O'Brien is about an expedition sent from the planet Earth to Alpha Centauri, the star closest to our solar system. The Kosmos, a great ship that the central character Neil de Hoyos describes as a "flying city", is immense in size and capable of more than half light-speed. Hoyos is a Nobel Prize winning physicist who has played a major role in designing the ship. Hoyos has signed on as a passenger because he desires to escape the seemingly benign totalitarian government that controls everything on his home planet. He is a skeptical and quirky misanthropic humanist with old tragedies, loves, and hatreds that are secreted in his memory. The surprises that await him on the voyage-and its destination-will shatter all of his assumptions and point him to a true new horizon. Science fiction and fantasy literature are genres that have become dominant forces in contemporary worldwide culture. Our fascination with the near-angelic powers of new technology, its benefits and dangers, its potential for obsession and catastrophe, raises vital questions that this work explores about human nature and the cosmos, about man's image of himself and where he is going-and why he seeks to go there.
Download or read book Voyage of Vengeance written by La Fayette Ron Hubbard and published by Bridge Publications (CA). This book was released on 1987 with total page 381 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Science fiction - alien odyssey on Earth.
Download or read book Over the Edge of the World written by Laurence Bergreen and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-10-13 with total page 501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A first-rate historical page turner.” —New York Times Book Review The acclaimed and bestselling account of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage. Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning biographer and journalist Laurence Bergreen entwines a variety of candid, firsthand accounts, bringing to life this groundbreaking and majestic tale of discovery that changed both the way explorers would henceforth navigate the oceans and history itself. Now updated to include a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of Magellan’s voyage.
Download or read book Cosmic Voyage written by Courtney Brown and published by Farsight, Inc.. This book was released on 1996 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through Scientific Remote Viewing, the author "reveals that at least two alien civilizations have been and continue to be intimately involved with Earth humans: a Martian race who ... still struggle to survive on their nearly dead planet; and the Greys, a highly advanced humanoid people."
Download or read book Journey to the Center of the Earth written by Jules Verne and published by Bantam. This book was released on 2006-04-25 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The intrepid Professor Lindenbrock embarks upon the strangest expedition of the nineteenth century: a journey down an extinct Icelandic volcano to the Earth’s very core. In his quest to penetrate the planet’s primordial secrets, the geologist—together with his quaking nephew Axel and their devoted guide, Hans—discovers an astonishing subterranean menagerie of prehistoric proportions. Verne’s imaginative tale is at once the ultimate science fiction adventure and a reflection on the perfectibility of human understanding and the psychology of the questor. As David Brin notes in his Introduction, though Verne never knew the term “science fiction,” Journey to the Centre of the Earth is “inarguably one of the wellsprings from which it all began.”
Download or read book The Bottom of the World and other stories written by John Coleman Burroughs and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2014-07-02 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four stories collected in this book were written by two sons and a daughter-in-law of Tarzan creator, Edgar Rice Burroughs. John Coleman Burroughs and Jane Ralston Burroughs wrote "Hybrid of Horror." John Coleman and his brother Hulbert wrote "The Man Without a World," "The Lightning Men," and "The Bottom of the World." Fully illustrated with the original artwork from the pulp magazines Thrilling Mystery, Thrilling Wonder Stories, and Startling Stories.
Download or read book A Journey in Other Worlds written by John Jacob Astor and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2019-09-25 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original: A Journey in Other Worlds by John Jacob Astor
Download or read book A Journey to the Centre of the Earth written by Jules Verne and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Matthew Looney s Voyage to the Earth written by Jerome Beatty and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From observations made aboard an exploratory space voyage of moonlings to Earth, a moon lad deduces that life exists on the new planet.
Download or read book A Journey to the Interior of the Earth written by Jules Verne and published by Joe Books Ltd. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Otto Lidenbrock and his nephew, Axel, decide to undertake the journey of a lifetime when, in an old manuscript, they uncover the location of a passage to the interior of the Earth. With the help of an Icelandic guide, the intrepid party venture deep into the Earth, where they discover an unimagined world populated with strange and fearsome creatures. Originally published as Voyage au centre de la Terre (Journey to the Centre of the Earth), Jules Verne's classic adventure story remains one of the author's most noted works of science fiction. Be it mystery, romance, drama, comedy, politics, or history, great literature stands the test of time. ClassicJoe proudly brings literary classics to today's digital readers, connecting those who love to read with authors whose work continues to get people talking. Look for other fiction and non-fiction classics from ClassicJoe.
Download or read book Aleriel Or a Voyage to Other Worlds written by W. S. Lach-Szyrma and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-29 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Aleriel, or a Voyage to Other Worlds: A Tale Neptune are much larger Mercury, Mars, the planetoids, and the satellites much smaller; Venus, our twin-sister world, almost the same. In form, the Earth is nearly a sphere, and so are all, or nearly all, its fellow-worlds; some are more flattened at the poles, and some less, The Earth is enveloped in an atmosphere, - so it seems are Venus, Mercury, Mars, and probably the giant planets Jupiter and Saturn. The earth has continents and oceans, - so have Mars and (probably) Venus. The Earth has snow in winter, - so it seems has Mars. The Earth possesses a satellite, - so do Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune possess their satel lites. In fact, the Earth is peculiar in nothing /which we might expect to trace in other worlds. Why should we suppose it to be the sole abode of life? This subject has been much discussed. Not to speak of the older astronomers, in our own time Proctor, Flammarion, Brewster, and Powell have discussed it. I must own that the objections have ever seemed to me to be most frivolous. Can this grain on the sands of infinity - this little planet of an unimportant system - be the sole abode of vitality? About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The strangest journey of my life and other stories by F Pigot written by Frederick Arnold and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Back to Earth written by NICOLE. STOTT and published by Seal Press. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Inspired by insights gained in spaceflight, a NASA astronaut offers key lessons to empower Earthbound readers to fight climate change When Nicole Stott first saw Earth from space, she realized how interconnected we are and knew she had to help protect our planetary home. In Back to Earth, Stott imparts essential lessons in problem-solving, survival, and crisis response that each of us can practice to make change. She knows we can overcome differences to address global issues, because she saw this every day on the International Space Station. Stott shares stories from her spaceflight and insights from scientists, activists, and changemakers working to solve our greatest environmental challenges. She learns about the complexities of Earth's biodiversity from NASA engineers working to enable life in space and from scientists protecting life on Earth for future generations. Ultimately, Stott reveals how we each have the power to respect our planetary home and one another by living our lives like crewmates, not passengers, on an inspiring shared mission
Download or read book A Journey to the Center of the Earth The Mysterious Island Illustrated Edition written by Jules Verne and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-26 with total page 903 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Journey to the Centre of the Earth is an 1864 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story involves German professor Otto Lidenbrock who believes there are volcanic tubes going toward the centre of the Earth. He, his nephew Axel, and their guide Hans descend into the Icelandic volcano Snæfellsjökull, encountering many adventures, including prehistoric animals and natural hazards. The Mysterious Island - The plot focuses on the adventures of five Americans on an uncharted island in the South Pacific. During the American Civil War, five northern prisoners of war decide to escape, during the siege of Richmond, Virginia, by hijacking a balloon. During their stay on the island, the group endures bad weather, and domesticates an orangutan, Jupiter. There is a mystery on the island in the form of an unseen deus ex machina, responsible for Cyrus' survival after falling from the balloon, the mysterious rescue of Top from a dugong, the appearance of a box of equipment (guns and ammunition, tools, etc.), and other seemingly inexplicable occurrences... Jules Verne (1828-1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright best known for his adventure novels and his profound influence on the literary genre of science fiction.
