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A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Natures Bounty

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: material gain, natural world, balance, identity, belonging  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-03-05

When I had filled my wallet, I proceeded to search for nests. After about two hours of hard work, I, one day, sat down by a stream to eat my humble bu...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Marine Exploration

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: nature, exploration, technology, industrialization, ecological balance  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-02-08

As to the fauna, it might be counted by thousands of crustacea of all sorts, lobsters, crabs, spider-crabs, chameleon shrimps, and a large number of s...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Ecosystems Reimagined

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: rebirth, coexistence, resilience, nature's balance, geological change  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-15

The soil was still of the same volcanic nature; everywhere were traces of lava, scoriae, and basalt; but the crater which had vomited them I could not...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Oceanic Dynamics

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: nature, exploration, balance, human ingenuity, interconnectedness  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-10

Indeed, the volume of water in the Mediterranean, incessantly added to by the waves of the Atlantic and by rivers falling into it, would each year rai...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Continents and Men

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: geological evolution, human ambition, imperialism, ecological balance, philosophical introspection  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-09

These are coral islands, slowly raised, but continuous, created by the daily work of polypi. Then this new island will be joined later on to the neigh...