Off on a comet!
"Nearly a century before space travel captured the imaginations of science-fiction writers and readers, Jules Verne envisioned an incident in which a comet impact sends a piece of the Earth on a two-year trip around the solar system. Thirty-six people of various nationalities are swept away by the c...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English French |
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Mineola :
Dover Publications, Inc.,
[2020]
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| Edition: | Dover thrift editions |
| Series: | Dover thrift editions
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| Summary: | "Nearly a century before space travel captured the imaginations of science-fiction writers and readers, Jules Verne envisioned an incident in which a comet impact sends a piece of the Earth on a two-year trip around the solar system. Thirty-six people of various nationalities are swept away by the collision and forced to put aside their differences to survive an increasingly frigid atmosphere-and to, hopefully, find their way home"-- |
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| Item Description: | "This Dover edition, first published in 2020, is an unabridged republication of the Edward Roth translation, sometimes titled Hector Servadac: part two, which appeared in various printings between 1878 and 1895." |
| Physical Description: | v, 248 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780486841663 |
| Author Notes: | (Bowker Author Biography) |
