800 Leagues on the Amazon, with eBook..., Jules Verne
800 Leagues on the Amazon, with eBook..., Jules Verne
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800 Leagues on the Amazon, with eBook

Author: Jules Verne

Narrator: John Bolen

Unabridged: 9 hr 18 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/29/2009

Categories: Fiction, Classic

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

Joam Garral of Iquitos, Peru, concedes to his daughter's wishes to travel to Belem, Brazil, where she can marry Manuel Valdez in the presence of Manuel's invalid mother. The Garrals plan to make the journey to Belem down the Amazon River via a giant raft. Along the way, Joam plans to get his good name restored, as he is still wanted in Brazil for a crime he did not commit. Absolute proof of Joam's innocence lies in the hands of a scoundrel named Torres, who has a cryptogram that will exonerate Garral. However, the price that Torres wants for this information is much too high. Will Joam's love and dedication to his family help him in his struggle to right injustice? And will the strange encoded message be deciphered in time to save him?

About Jules Verne

French author Jules Verne was born in the port of Nantes in 1828. He later moved to Paris to study law. At age twenty-eight, he married Honorine de Viane, a young widow with two children. Verne published several plays under the tutelage of Victor Hugo and Alexandre Dumas. He made his living as a stockbroker until his first successful series, Voyages Extraordinaire, was published in 1863. Soon Verne's novels became enormously popular around the world. Without a scientific background or experiences as a traveler, Verne spent much of his time doing research for his books. However, when the logic of the story contradicted scientific knowledge, Verne took poetic license with science to serve his fast-paced adventures.

Verne's stories caught the spirit of the nineteenth century and its uncritical enthusiasm about scientific progress and invention. His works were often written in the form of a travel book taking the readers on fantastic voyages. Many of Verne's ideas have been hailed as prophetic, predicting some of the inventions that have changed our world, including the airplane, the submarine, and spacecraft. He published sixty-five novels, some twenty short stories and essays, thirty plays, an opera libretto and two geographical works.

In the first part of his career Verne expressed optimism about progress and Europe's central role in the social and technical development of the world. In Verne's later novels, the author's pessimism is reflected in the doom-laden fin-de-siècle atmosphere. In contrast to the adventurous spirit of his novels, Verne's personal life was relatively uneventful, with the exception of his surviving a murder attempt by his insane nephew. Verne died of natural causes in Amiens on March 24, 1905.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Pramod on July 30, 2015

'800 Leagues on the Amazon' is an amazing story of adventure, honor, loyalty and exotic travel shrouded in great mystery. This is not the typical Jules Verne science fiction but it is a rollicking ride full of suspense and thrill on a log raft down almost the full length of the mighty Amazon River.......more

Goodreads review by Mateicee on April 18, 2025

Jule Verne und ich das ist eine Liebe die nicht erlischt. Dieser Mann hat ScFi begründet und hat in meinen Augen kaum ein schlechtes Buch geschrieben. Ich habe 'Die Jangada' sehr genossen zum lesen, ist es mein liebstes Buch von Jules Verne? Nein. Es ist aber trotzdem gut. Ich komme mit der Art und We......more

Goodreads review by Andrei on December 05, 2024

Romanian review: Cărțile lui Jules Verne au ceva aparte, deși atât personajele sale pozitive, cât și cele negative sunt adesea atât de asemănătoare, încât par copiate după un șablon, iar finalul este întotdeauna previzibil și convenabil. Pur și simplu, nu pot să mă satur de ele. Acest sentiment de a......more

Goodreads review by Mr.B on September 05, 2011

More of a travelogue than a story, although it does have an engaging plot, Verne's 800 Leagues on the Amazon follows a family's descent by enormous log raft down almost the full length of the mighty Amazon River, from Peru to the Atlantic coast in Brazil, as they make their way to the last town on t......more

Goodreads review by Paulius on September 22, 2023

Tada, kai šią knygą išleido, ji tikrai turėjo būti vienas įspūdingiausių nuotykių literatūros kūrinių. Nematyti gyvūnai, tolimi kraštai, nuostabūs augalai, pavojus, apgavystė. Viskas ko reikia. Dabar, literatūra pasikeitusi ir kūriniuose gvildenamos kitos temos. Čia aprašyti kultūros bruožai dabar su......more