Theme: exploration
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Luminous Atmosphere
All this while we were advancing on our journey; and at length night came; but as I had remarked the evening before, the luminous state of the atmosph...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Eastern Wonders
I cannot express my astonishment at the beauties of these new regions. Here the grouping formed an oriental town, with innumerable mosques and minaret...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Exploration Doubt
Did Saknussemm ever fall in with this great sheet of water? I begin to fear that the rivulet we adopted for a guide has led us wrong." "In any case, w...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Innovations at Sea
When the apparatus is at work this gas becomes luminous, giving out a white and continuous light. Thus provided, I can breathe and I can see.” “Captai...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Revelation in Reverse
"Nothing if you read from left to right, but mark, if from right to left--" "Backwards!" cried my uncle, in wild amazement. "Oh most cunning Saknussem...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Cautious Descent
Hans, whenever he met with one of these obstacles, advanced with a great show of precaution, sounding the soil with his long iron pole in order to dis...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Curiosity and Confinement
On each side a window opened into this unexplored abyss. The obscurity of the saloon showed to advantage the brightness outside, and we looked out as ...
Gulliver's Travels / Perception and Reality
That upon coming nearer, and finding his error, he sent out his long-boat to discover what it was; that his men came back in a fright, swearing they h...
The War of the Worlds / Curiosity and Connection
“It’s a pity they make themselves so unapproachable,” he said. “It would be curious to know how they live on another planet; we might learn a thing or...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Exploration and Risk
We are about to pay a visit to the very bottom of the crater. Others have done it and did not perish from that course. "That, however, is not the whol...
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...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Frozen Frontiers
To the east one only existed somewhere about the eightieth degree of latitude, the Esk, upon the island of Jan Mayen, not far from the frozen regions ...
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...
Gulliver's Travels / Isolation and Discovery
Three days after my arrival, walking out of curiosity to the north-east coast of the island, I observed, about half a league off in the sea, somewhat ...
Gulliver's Travels / Exploration and Discovery
In the smaller pocket on the right side, were several round flat pieces of white and red metal, of different bulk; some of the white, which seemed to ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Oceanic Encounter
It swam crossways in the direction of the _Nautilus_ with great speed, watching us with its enormous staring green eyes. Its eight arms, or rather fee...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Natures Mysteries
Hour after hour passed without our coming to the termination of these floating weeds. If my astonishment increased, my patience was well-nigh exhauste...
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...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Journeys End
"Well," I said, "there can be no doubt now as to what we have to do. Water has utterly failed us; our journey is therefore at an end. Let us return." ...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Antediluvian Fears
"A tremendous spurt of water rising out of the waves." "Some other marine monster," I cried, already alarmed. "Perhaps." "Then let us steer more to th...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Sacrifice and Time
Fogg!” cried she, clasping his hands and covering them with tears. Fogg, “if we do not lose a moment.” Phileas Fogg, by this resolution, inevitably sa...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Geographic Revelation
“Well, Sir Naturalist,” said the Canadian, in a slightly jovial tone, “and the Mediterranean?” “We are floating on its surface, friend Ned.” “What!” s...
The War of the Worlds / Hidden Depths
He told me that a faint stirring was occasionally still audible within the case, but that the workmen had failed to unscrew the top, as it afforded no...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Beauty and Isolation
But, beautiful as it was, I could only take a rapid glance at the basin whose superficial area is two million of square yards. Even Captain Nemo’s kno...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Caution in Exploration
On the other side, prudence bids us profit by the first opportunity to leave the _Nautilus_.” “Well, M. Aronnax, that is wisely said.” “Only one obser...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Maritime Reflection
I therefore seated myself at the end of a promontory, at the foot of which the waves broke in incessant rolls. I looked round a bay formed by projecti...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Exploration and Truth
long., had seen some iron bars and red stuffs used by the natives of these parts. Dumont d’Urville, much perplexed, and not knowing how to credit the ...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Upward Struggles
For some time I have noticed that we are going upwards." "Upwards," cried my uncle, shrugging his shoulders, "how can that be?" "There can be no doubt...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Granite Majesty
At last, after about four hours, this marvellous excursion came to an end. A wall of superb rocks, in an imposing mass, rose before us, a heap of giga...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Diverse Observations
I saw many kinds which I never before had a chance of observing. I shall notice chiefly ostracions peculiar to the Red Sea, the Indian Ocean, and that...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Courage and Despair
Would that we now stood on the summit of the crater." "Go back," said my uncle, speaking to himself, "and must it be so?" "Go back--yes, and without l...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Moment of Uncertainty
At this moment nothing is clear to me; I catch but a glimpse of light amidst all the darkness, and I must confine myself to writing as events shall di...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Interconnected Journeys
This was easy to do, since the steamer stopped at Singapore, whence there is a telegraphic wire to Hong Kong. He finally resolved, moreover, before ac...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Journey Begins
At six o'clock in the morning, when the eager and enthusiastic Professor gave the signal to embark, the victuals, the luggage, all our instruments, ou...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Human Ambition
Such a process, simple as it seemed, would most certainly not have entered our heads. Nothing could be more dangerous than to begin to work with picka...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Depth and Dependence
“Let us remain together until we are out of this block.” “As you please, sir,” Conseil replied. I often looked at the instruments hanging from the par...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Oceanic Dynamics
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...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Stealthy Departure
The crew had just finished loading the sodium, and the _Nautilus_ could have left that instant. Did he wish to wait until night, and leave the submari...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Submarine Dinner
The _Nautilus_, like a long rock, emerged from the waves two miles from the beach. Ned Land, without waiting, occupied himself about the important din...
Gulliver's Travels / Boundaries and Journeys
I was an hour walking to the end of this field, which was fenced in with a hedge of at least one hundred and twenty feet high, and the trees so lofty ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Depths of Discovery
We had attained a depth of 16,000 yards (four leagues), and the sides of the _Nautilus_ then bore a pressure of 1,600 atmospheres, that is to say, 3,2...
Gulliver's Travels / Voyages and Encounters
In the mean time, I here conclude the second part of my unfortunate voyages. A VOYAGE TO LAPUTA, BALNIBARBI, GLUBBDUBDRIB, LUGGNAGG AND JAPAN. I had n...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Cultural Negotiation
His engagement with my uncle was by no means to cease with our arrival at Stapi; he was further to remain in his service during the whole time require...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Secrets of the Deep
The chest was securely fastened, and the Captain wrote an address on the lid, in characters which must have belonged to Modern Greece. This done, Capt...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Existential Journey
Can it give heat to a dead body?” “Not that I know of.” “Well, my friend, this earth will one day be that cold corpse; it will become uninhabitable an...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Arrival and Anticipation
Nearly the whole population of the town was on foot to see us land. The fact was, that scarcely any one of them but expected some goods by the periodi...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Voyage of Discovery
My uncle was careful to note every hour the indications of the compass, of the manometer, and of the thermometer, all which he afterwards published in...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Conflict of Knowledge
My uncle had completely defeated me with his scientific arguments. Nevertheless, I had still one hope, and that was, when once we were at the bottom o...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Desperate Quenching
Our thirst was so intense that to quench it we would have dug below the bed of old Ocean itself. Hans went quietly to work--a work which neither my un...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Natures Tension
The horizon grew wider and clearer at the same time. Suddenly, just as on the day before, Ned Land’s voice was heard: “The thing itself on the port qu...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Quest for Enlightenment
Our downward journey is quite checked." I held out my hand, and, after some little difficulty, succeeded in touching the wall. "The torch--the torch!"...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Anticipation in Nature
About twelve o'clock in the day our guide Hans having prepared and baited a hook, cast his line into the subterranean waters. The bait he used was a s...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Cultural Breach
Happily the temple walls were built of brick and wood, which could be penetrated with little difficulty; after one brick had been taken out, the rest ...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Straits of Malacca
approached the Straits of Malacca, which gave access to the China seas.
Around the World in Eighty Days / Journey Through Nature
The railway turned around the sides of the mountains, and did not attempt to violate nature by taking the shortest cut from one point to another. The ...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Human and Nature
The estimable beast certainly deserved some consideration. Fogg choose to make him, Passepartout, a present of Kiouni, he would be very much embarrass...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Navigating Perilous Terrain
It is necessary, however, to take great precaution, in order to avoid the weight of falling waters, which would cause the raft to founder in an instan...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Marine Exploration
At this moment the peak was clearly defined against the sky. The _Nautilus_, diving again under the water, approached the coast, which was only some f...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Culinary Survival
no, bread, indeed.” “I do not say that fish is not good; we must not abuse it; but a piece of fresh venison, grilled on live coals, will agreeably var...
Dracula / Maritime Uncertainty
The wind is high--I can hear it in the shrouds, and the bow throws back the foam.” It is evident that the _Czarina Catherine_ is still at sea, hasteni...
The War of the Worlds / Meteoric Discovery
But very early in the morning poor Ogilvy, who had seen the shooting star and who was persuaded that a meteorite lay somewhere on the common between H...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Navigational Perils
It did not follow the routes of the Astrolabe and the Zelee exactly, for they proved fatal to Dumont d’Urville. It bore more northwards, coasted the I...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Despair and Decision
Fogg was certainly ruined, his bet was lost, and he himself perhaps arrested and imprisoned! Ah, if Fix ever came within his reach, what a settling of...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Perception Versus Reality
"Are you ill, Henry?" continued the Professor in an anxious tone. All now seems well," I added, looking around me with strangely puzzled eyes. "All ri...
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.
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Instruments of Depth
But these others, no doubt, answer to the particular requirements of the _Nautilus_. This dial with the movable needle is a manometer, is it not?” “It...
Gulliver's Travels / Struggle for Freedom
In this necessity I was forced to swim behind, and push the boat forward, as often as I could, with one of my hands; and the tide favouring me, I adva...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Exploration and Isolation
I thought that a mountainous region was succeeding the long plains; and accordingly, after a few evolutions of the _Nautilus_, I saw the southerly hor...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Natures Indifference
The buffaloes marched along with a tranquil gait, uttering now and then deafening bellowings. There was no use of interrupting them, for, having taken...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Resourceful Hunter
Hans the hunter is indeed an invaluable man!" It was impossible to deny this fact. As far as the nautical and other instruments were concerned, nothin...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Maritime Endeavors
As usual, the crew was small, five Danes doing the whole of the work. "Well, I should think about ten days," replied the skipper, "unless, indeed, we ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Natures Contrasts
“Good!” said Conseil; “a concert of bulls!” “No; a concert of morses.” “They are fighting!” “They are either fighting or playing.” We now began to cli...
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...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Prudence vs Adventure
To fly is, therefore, the course to be suggested by ordinary prudence. But we have not come into that part of the world to be prudent. The nearer we c...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Exploration and Isolation
I had not seen Captain Nemo for a week, when, on the morning of the 27th, he came into the large drawing-room, always seeming as if he had seen you fi...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Culinary Discomfort
The water was fresh and clear, but it was water, and did not suit Ned Land’s taste. Amongst the dishes which were brought to us, I recognised several ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Nautilus Revelation
The Captain showed me a sketch that gave the plan, section, and elevation of the _Nautilus_. Then he began his description in these words:— “Here, M. ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Exploration and Irony
sir,” said Captain Nemo, in an ironical tone, “you will always be the same. I affirm that not only can the _Nautilus_ disengage itself, but also that ...
The War of the Worlds / Uncanny Encounter
It worried at the catch for a minute, perhaps, and then the door opened. In the darkness I could just see the thing—like an elephant’s trunk more than...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Journeying in a Dream
“Thanks, yes, the passport is all right.” “And you are looking about you?” “Yes; but we travel so fast that I seem to be journeying in a dream. So thi...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Illuminated Geology
It was a glorious sight to see how the electric light brought out the sparkles in the walls of the calcareous rocks, and the old red sandstone. One mi...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Bad Season Exploration
It was then the bad season in Australia, the July of that zone corresponding to our January in Europe, but the sea was beautiful and easily scanned ro...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Temperature Gradients
Thus at Yakoust in Siberia, it has been remarked that the heat increases a degree every thirty-six feet. The difference evidently depends on the condu...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Hunting Adventures
The Canadian skinned and cleaned it properly, after having taken half a dozen cutlets, destined to furnish us with a grilled repast in the evening. Th...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Confusion and Control
Fix, it must be confessed, understood nothing of what was going on. The conquest of the “Henrietta,” the bribery of the crew, Fogg managing the boat l...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Uncharted Territories
"Yes, you have no idea how many unknown mountains, glaciers, volcanoes there are which remain to be studied. Without moving from where we sit, I can s...
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 / Embarrassment and Journey
Fogg choose to make him, Passepartout, a present of Kiouni, he would be very much embarrassed; and these thoughts did not cease worrying him for a lon...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Observation and Discovery
Conseil and I remained to survey the shore, observing and studying until five o’clock. Then I went to bed, not, however, without invoking, like the In...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Oceanic Terrors
There rose high submarine cliffs covered with large weeds. It was about eleven o’clock when Ned Land drew my attention to a formidable pricking, like ...
Around the World in Eighty Days / Fortune Favors the Brave
IN WHICH PASSEPARTOUT RECEIVES A NEW PROOF THAT FORTUNE FAVORS THE BRAVE The project was a bold one, full of difficulty, perhaps impracticable. Fogg w...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Naming the Unknown
sea voyage had at length commenced; and once more we were making for distant and unknown regions. Just as we were about to leave the little port where...
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 ...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Chase of the Cetacean
The _Abraham Lincoln_, propelled by her wonderful screw, went straight at the animal. The latter allowed it to come within half a cable’s length; then...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Depths of Knowledge
Then, addressing me as if to chase away some sorrowful thought: “M. Aronnax,” he asked, “do you know the depth of the ocean?” “I only know, Captain, w...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Marine Mysteries
“No,” replied the Canadian; “for this is whole, and the other had lost its tail.” “That is no reason,” I replied. “The arms and tails of these animals...
The War of the Worlds / Encounters with the Unknown
But, looking, I presently saw something stirring within the shadow: greyish billowy movements, one above another, and then two luminous disks—like eye...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Transformation Through Discovery
"Are you convinced?" said my uncle, with a self-satisfied smile. "I am convinced," I cried, "that what I see is incredible." The fact was that my jour...
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...
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth / Mapping Discovery
"But see, what is all this about Yocul, and Sneffels, and this Scartaris? I have never heard anything about them." "The very point to which I am comin...
Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Marine Diversity
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...