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Around the World in Eighty Days / Journeys Threshold

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: nature's duality, exploration, tension, colonialism, anticipation  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2026-01-26

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...
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Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea / Bad Season Exploration

Author: Jules Verne (Gutenberg)  | Themes: colonial challenges, nature's duality, navigational precision, exploration, hardship  | Source: Project Gutenberg  | Published: 2025-12-09

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...