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A Agência Thompson & C.ª - Segunda Parte
Açores e Madeira, portos de escala duma excursão.
Uma viagem de recreio em que os excursionistas se vêem envolvidos nas mais incríveis e perigosas aventuras.
Uma viagem de recreio em que os excursionistas se vêem envolvidos nas mais incríveis e perigosas aventuras.
- GenresAdventure
268 pages, Hardcover
Published January 1, 2003
About the author
Jules Verne
7,077 books12.3k followersNovels of French writer Jules Gabriel Verne, considered the founder of modern science fiction, include
Journey to the Center of the Earth
(1864) and
Around the World in Eighty Days
(1873).
This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).
Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_V...
This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870).
Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules_V...
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May 20, 2023
The Thompson and Co agency offers a whole adventure! Mr. Thompson, the owner of a London travel/expedition agency, is going out of his way to compete with a well-established agency. And he knows how to cut corners: he passes his dilapidated ship for a luxury cruise ship. He claims that his guide/interpreter is an academic who speaks several languages. Fortunately, this interpreter, Robert Morgand, a very sympathetic Frenchman, rises to the occasion eventually. A host of characters join them, including customers/passengers, Roger de Sorgues and the Lindsay sisters, and locals from the islands visit. Many of these characters are colorful.
Jules Verne wrote a book in the vein of his adventure stories. The characters are carried from island to island in the Atlantic (Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands, Cape Verde) and even on the African coast. They experience several adventures there, some comical like the young Azorean woman who wants to flee her mother, others more severe like landslides, quarantines, a storm, and even capture by Moors!
The author has not neglected love either: the two Frenchmen hope to find it among the passengers.
I liked this novel, as one can like those of Jules Verne. He took up the recipe that ensured his success without changing anything. There were several lengths, and the plot was entirely predictable: "Here, another island, let's explore it to see what dangers it holds for us!" In place of the customers, I would have demanded that we return to England and request a refund.
Jules Verne wrote a book in the vein of his adventure stories. The characters are carried from island to island in the Atlantic (Azores, Madeira, Canary Islands, Cape Verde) and even on the African coast. They experience several adventures there, some comical like the young Azorean woman who wants to flee her mother, others more severe like landslides, quarantines, a storm, and even capture by Moors!
The author has not neglected love either: the two Frenchmen hope to find it among the passengers.
I liked this novel, as one can like those of Jules Verne. He took up the recipe that ensured his success without changing anything. There were several lengths, and the plot was entirely predictable: "Here, another island, let's explore it to see what dangers it holds for us!" In place of the customers, I would have demanded that we return to England and request a refund.
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