Theme: colonialism
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Natural Bounty
Towards evening it approached the Falkland group, the rough summits of which I recognised the following day. On the shores our nets brought in beautif...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Journeys Threshold
Allahabad was now only twelve miles to the north-east. They stopped under a clump of bananas, the fruit of which, as healthy as bread and as succulent...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Exploration and Discovery
I saw in the morning, some miles to the windward, the elevated summits of the island. These waters furnished our table with excellent fish, mackerel, ...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Voyage to Yokohama
“Is your honour looking for a boat?” “Have you a boat ready to sail?” “Yes, your honour; a pilot-boat—No. 43—the best in the harbour.” “Does she go fa...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Greed and Value
Returning to the Indian, whose small, sharp eyes, glistening with avarice, betrayed that with him it was only a question of how great a price he could...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Hotel Dynamics
The ground floor of the hotel was occupied by a large bar, a sort of restaurant freely open to all passers-by, who might partake of dried beef, oyster...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Colonial Justice
Judge Obadiah had unfortunately caught Passepartout’s rash exclamation, which the poor fellow would have given the world to recall. “Inasmuch,” resume...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Geographical Connections
Did you remark the postmarks of those letters?” “The first was from Pondicherry, the second from Dundee, and the third from London.” “From East London...
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes / Identity Transformation
He was the keeper of a low den in which I used to lodge in Swandam Lane, where I could every morning emerge as a squalid beggar and in the evenings tr...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Ceylons Legacy
Then turning to me, said: “The Island of Ceylon, noted for its pearl-fisheries. Aronnax?” “Certainly, Captain.” “Well, the thing is easy.
Gulliver's Travels / Supernatural Encounters
He desired me to give him some account of my travels; and, to let me see that I should be treated without ceremony, he dismissed all his attendants wi...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Strategic Navigation
In going to Shanghai we should not be forced to sail wide of the Chinese coast, which would be a great advantage, as the currents run northward, and w...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Colonial Contrasts
From hence I went to the house of the Governor--a mere hut in comparison with the Mansion House of Hamburg--but a palace alongside the other Icelandic...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Colonial Desolation
The ground was covered by groups of the Indians, motionless in their drunken sleep; it seemed a battlefield strewn with the dead. In the background, a...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Travel and Wit
That was a good time.” “For the cats, my lord?” “Perhaps for the travellers as well!” After which Mr. Fogg, and his first destination was the headquar...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Desperate Choices
They then discussed the means of getting at the victim. The guide was familiar with the pagoda of Pillaji, in which, as he declared, the young woman w...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Cultural Encounters
But he shrank from telling the story of his adventures, intimately connected as it was with that of his master; and, before doing so, he determined to...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Obstacles of Progress
“Yes, but it’s on the other side of the river.” “And can’t we cross that in a boat?” asked the colonel. It is a rapid, and we shall have to make a cir...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Colonial Encounters
However, on the 26th, appeased by some presents, and understanding that they had no reprisals to fear, they led M. There, in three or four fathoms of ...
Gulliver's Travels / Struggle for Freedom
I lay all this while, as the reader may believe, in great uneasiness. At length, struggling to get loose, I had the fortune to break the strings, and ...
The War of the Worlds / Chaos and Indifference
It was this howling and firing of the guns at Ripley and St. George’s Hill that we had heard at Upper Halliford. The Ripley gunners, unseasoned artill...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Desperation at Sea
But on the 11th of April it rose suddenly, and land appeared at the mouth of the Amazon River, a vast estuary, the embouchure of which is so considera...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Cultural Exchange
Batulcar, was to commence at three o’clock, and soon the deafening instruments of a Japanese orchestra resounded at the door. Passepartout, though he ...