"2001 Haifa International Film Festival) 2008–2012 Sonicbooks Hebrew audio books including: ""World Cup Wishes"" by Eshkol Nevo, ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"" and ""Around the World in Eighty Days"" by Jules Verne, ""The Count of Monte Cristo"" by Alexandre Dumas, and ""My Ishmael"" by Daniel Quinn. Kis-Lev lives and works in Israel's Galilee. He is a board member of the ""Israeli League of Esperanto Speakers"", and he was the president of the ""Israeli League of Young Esperanto Speakers"". Kis-Lev is an active member in ""Big Brothers Big Sisters"" of Israel, as well as in the ""Israeli Association of Visual"
"Lewis Page Mercier Reverend Lewis Page Mercier (9 January 1820 – 2 November 1875) is known today as the translator, along with Eleanor Elizabeth King, of two of the best known novels of Jules Verne: ""Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas"" and ""From the Earth to the Moon, and a Trip Around It"". To avoid a conflict of interest with his position as chaplain, Mercier wrote under the pen names of Louis Mercier, MA (Oxon) and Mercier Lewis. In 1871, the publishers Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington acquired the English rights to several of Jules Verne's books. For their"
"Lewis Page Mercier Reverend Lewis Page Mercier (9 January 1820 – 2 November 1875) is known today as the translator, along with Eleanor Elizabeth King, of two of the best known novels of Jules Verne: ""Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas"" and ""From the Earth to the Moon, and a Trip Around It"". To avoid a conflict of interest with his position as chaplain, Mercier wrote under the pen names of Louis Mercier, MA (Oxon) and Mercier Lewis. In 1871, the publishers Sampson Low, Marston, Searle, and Rivington acquired the English rights to several of Jules Verne's books. For their"
"Jules Verne Jules Gabriel Verne (; ; 8 February 1828 – 24 March 1905) was a French novelist, poet, and playwright. Jules Verne was born in the seaport of Nantes, he was trained to follow in his father's footsteps as a lawyer, but quit the profession early in life to write for magazines and the stage. His collaboration with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel led to the creation of the ""Voyages extraordinaires"", a widely popular series of scrupulously researched adventure novels including ""Journey to the Center of the Earth"" (1864), ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"" (1870), and ""Around the World"
"Cultural influence of Jules Verne Jules Verne (1828–1905), the French writer best known for his ""Voyages extraordinaires"" series, has had a wide influence in both scientific and literary fields. The pioneering submarine designer Simon Lake credited his inspiration to ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"", and his autobiography begins ""Jules Verne was in a sense the director-general of my life."" William Beebe, Sir Ernest Shackleton, and Robert Ballard found similar early inspiration in the novel, and Jacques Cousteau called it his ""shipboard bible"". The aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont named Verne as his favorite author and the inspiration for his own"
"James Poe James Poe (October 4, 1921 – January 24, 1980) was an American film and television screenwriter. He is best known for his work on the movies ""Around the World in 80 Days"" for which he jointly won an Academy Award in 1956, ""Cat on a Hot Tin Roof"", ""Summer and Smoke"", ""Lilies of the Field"", and ""They Shoot Horses, Don't They?"". He also worked as a writer on the radio shows ""Escape"" and ""Suspense"", writing the scripts for some of their best episodes, most notably ""Three Skeleton Key"", ""Blood Bath"" and ""The Present Tense"", all of which starred"
"divers from many countries, notably Japan. In 1978 an agreement between Australia and Papua New Guinea determined the maritime border in the Torres Strait. Torres Strait is mentioned in Jules Verne's ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"" as a dangerous strait where the submarine, the ""Nautilus"", is briefly stranded. The people of the Torres Strait have a unique indigenous culture which has drawn the interest of a range of anthropological, historical, archaeological and folklorist researchers (both professional and amateur). This includes an expedition from Cambridge University led by the early ethnographer Alfred Haddon in 1898 and the more contemporary regional"
"Captain Nemo Captain Nemo (; also known as Prince Dakkar) is a fictional character created by the French science fiction author Jules Verne (1828–1905). Nemo appears in two of Verne's novels, ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"" (1870) and ""The Mysterious Island"" (1874), and makes a cameo appearance in Verne's play ""Journey Through the Impossible"" (1882). Nemo is a mysterious figure. The son of an Indian Raja, he is a scientific genius who roams the depths of the sea in his submarine, the ""Nautilus"", which was built in pieces all over the world and shipped to the builder. Nemo tries"
"version of the story released in 1916 and later in both the graphic novel and the movie ""The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen"". In Walt Disney's ""20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"" (1954), a live-action Technicolor film version of the novel, Captain Nemo is a European, bitter because his wife and son were tortured to death by those in power in the fictional prison camp of Rura Penthe, in an effort to get Nemo to reveal his scientific secrets. This is Nemo's motivation for sinking warships in the film. Also, Nemo's submarine is confined to a set circular section of the Pacific"
"1869 and almost all the rebel leaders had submitted to Ottoman rule though some, notably the pro-Russian Hadjimichaelis, remained in exile in Greece. The Cretan revolt is referenced in Jules Verne's novel ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"", written while the revolt was going on. Verne's Captain Nemo is mentioned as using his submarine ""Nautilus"" to provide ""4,000 lb. weight of gold"" to the rebels. This passage clearly indicates the sympathy of Verne to the rebels' cause. The revolt is mentioned in the novel ""Freedom and Death"" by Nikos Kazantzakis. In this work, the explosion of the monastery is attributed"
"press. He translated into Dari and Pashto many major works of European authors, such as ""Around the World in Eighty Days, Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, The Mysterious Island, International Law"" (from Turkish), and the History of the Russo-Japanese War. When he lived in Turkey and Syria, he immersed himself in reading and research, using Western literary and scientific sources. In Damascus, Tarzi wrote ""The Garden of Learning"", containing choice articles about literary, artistic, travel and scientific matters. Another book entitled ""The Garden of Knowledge"" (later published in Kabul), concludes with an article ""My beloved country, Afghanistan"", in which"
"period fantasies started with Disney's ""20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"" (1954). The film attempted to capitalize on the series of Edgar Allan Poe films that had been made by Roger Corman, starring Price. To this extent the film took the title of a Poe poem, ""The City in the Sea"", and attempted to exploit the Poe films' trend, even though the plot is only loosely based on the poem, with a recitation of the poem at the end of the film. Around the turn of the century, American mining engineer Ben Harris is working on the Cornish coast in England"
"old ship (the ""Bothina"") in the place of a fast ship (""Etruria""). Bly's journey, at the time, was a world record, though it was bettered a few months later by George Francis Train, who completed the journey in 67 days. By 1913, Andre Jaeger-Schmidt, Henry Frederick and John Henry Mears had improved on the record, the latter completing the journey in less than 36 days. Around the World in Seventy-Two Days Around the World in Seventy-Two Days is an 1890 book by journalist Elizabeth Jane Cochrane, writing under her pseudonym, Nellie Bly. The chronicle details her 72-day trip around the"
"such violent tidal surges: Three of the most notable literary references to the Lofoten Maelstrom date from the nineteenth century. The first is the Edgar Allan Poe short story ""A Descent into the Maelström"" (1841). The second is ""20,000 Leagues Under the Sea"" (1870), the famous novel by Jules Verne. At the end of this novel, Captain Nemo seems to commit suicide, sending his ""Nautilus"" submarine into the Maelstrom (although in Verne's sequel Nemo and the Nautilus were seen to have survived). The ""Norway maelstrom"" is also mentioned in Herman Melville's ""Moby-Dick"". In the 'Life of St Columba', the author,"
"Around the World in 80 Gardens Around the World in 80 Gardens was a television series of 10 programmes in which British gardener and broadcaster Monty Don visited 80 of the world's most celebrated gardens. The series was filmed over a period of 18 months and was first broadcast on BBC Two at 9.00pm on successive Sundays from 27 January to 30 March 2008. A book based on the series was also published. The title of the series was a reference to Jules Verne's novel ""Around the World in Eighty Days"" and is a spiritual successor to Dan Cruickshank's earlier"
"Robert Louis Stevenson Robert Louis Stevenson (13 November 1850 – 3 December 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, musician and travel writer. His most famous works are ""Treasure Island"", ""Kidnapped"", ""Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde"", and ""A Child's Garden of Verses"". He was a literary celebrity during his lifetime, and now ranks as the 26th most translated author in the world. His works have been admired by many other writers, including Jorge Luis Borges, Bertolt Brecht, Marcel Proust, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, Cesare Pavese, Emilio Salgari, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Jack London, Vladimir Nabokov, J."
"this day the most translated science fiction author in the world as well as one of the most continually reprinted and widely read French authors. Though often scientifically outdated, his ""Voyages"" still retain their sense of wonder that appealed to readers of his time, and still provoke an interest in the sciences among the young. The ""Voyages"" are frequently adapted into film, from Georges Méliès' fanciful 1902 film ""Le Voyage dans la Lune"" (aka ""A Trip to the Moon""), to Walt Disney's 1954 adaptation of ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"", to the 2004 version of ""Around the World in"
"place in the biblical period and dealing with biblical topics, Haskalah-era writers began to find it more and more difficult to write about contemporary topics. This was due mostly to the lack of a broad and modern vocabulary, meaning translating books about science and mathematics or European literature was difficult. Although an earlier, little known attempt at scientific writing was made when Israel Wolf Sperling translated Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Journey to the Center of the Earth in 1877 and 1878, this barrier was breached with more lasting effect in the 1880s by a writer named"
"the book from the initial concept is a portrait of Tadeusz Kościuszko, a Polish national hero, leader of the uprising against Russia in 1794, with an inscription in Latin: ""Finis Poloniae!"" (""The end of Poland!""). Margaret Drabble argues that ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"" anticipated the ecology movement and shaped the French avant-garde. Theodore L. Thomas in 1961 said that ""there is not a single bit of valid speculation"" in the novel and that ""none of its predictions has come true"". He described the depictions of the diving gear, scenes, and the ""Nautilus"" as ""pretty bad, behind the times"
"Win Scott Eckert. Phileas Fogg Phileas Fogg () is the protagonist in the 1873 Jules Verne novel ""Around the World in Eighty Days"". Fogg makes a wager of £20,000 (£2 million in 2017) with members of London's Reform Club that he can circumnavigate the world in 80 days or less. He sets out with his French servant Jean Passepartout to win the wager, unaware that he is being followed by a detective named Fix, who suspects Fogg of having robbed the Bank of England. In the second half of the book Fix helps Fogg in order to get him back"
"""The Children of Captain Grant"" and ""Michael Strogoff"", as similarly spectacular plays. Verne began playing with the idea of bringing a mixed selection of ""Voyages Extraordinaires"" characters together on a new adventure in early 1875, when he considered writing a novel in which Samuel Fergusson from ""Five Weeks in a Balloon"", Pierre Aronnax from ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"", Phileas Fogg from ""Around the World in Eighty Days"", Dr. Clawbonny from ""The Adventures of Captain Hatteras"", and other characters would go around the world together in a heavier-than-air flying machine. Another novel featuring a similar trip around the world"
"Thousand Leagues Under the Sea""). In a late interview, Verne affirmed that Hetzel's ambitious commission had become the running literary theme of his novel sequence: However, Verne made clear that his own object was more literary than scientific, saying ""I do not in any way pose as a scientist"" and explaining in another interview: In the system developed by Hetzel for the ""Voyages Extraordinaires"", each of Verne's novels was published successively in several different formats. This resulted in as many as four distinct editions of each text (labeled here according to current practice for Verne bibliographies): Jules Verne remains to"
"the poem after reading Jules Verne's novel ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"", which had recently been published in book form, and which is known to have been the source of many of the poem's allusions and images. Another Verne novel, ""The Adventures of Captain Hatteras"", was likely an additional source of inspiration. The poem is arranged in a series of 25 alexandrine quatrains with an ""a/b/a/b"" rhyme-scheme. It is woven around the delirious visions of the eponymous boat, swamped and lost at sea. It was considered revolutionary in its use of imagery and symbolism. One of the longest and"
"public-domain translation, which is available from a number of sources, notably a recent edition with the title ""Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas"" (). In 2010 Walter released a fully revised, newly researched translation with the title ""20,000 Leagues Under the Seas"" — part of an omnibus of five of his Verne translations titled ""Amazing Journeys: Five Visionary Classics"" and published by State University of New York Press. In 1998 William Butcher issued a new, annotated translation from the French original, published by Oxford University Press, , with the title ""Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas"". He includes detailed notes,"
"Childhood"". Perec once commented: ""When Jules Verne lists all the names of fish over four pages in ""Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas"", I feel as though I am reading a poem."" The Swiss traveler and writer Nicolas Bouvier cited Verne as his initiation into geography, and named Mathias Sandorf and Phileas Fogg among his childhood heroes. The British traveler and filmmaker Graham Hughes has similarly identified Fogg as one of his inspirations. According to scholarly hypothesis, J.R.R. Tolkien was inspired by Verne during the writing of his Legendarium narratives. The Tolkien scholar Mark T. Hooker and the philosopher Roderick"
"ordinary folk have envisioned over the decades their own interpretations of ""Nautilus"": A Catalog of ""Nautilus"" Designs Nautilus (Verne) Nautilus is the fictional submarine captained by Nemo featured in Jules Verne's novels ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"" (1870) and ""The Mysterious Island"" (1874). Verne named the ""Nautilus"" after Robert Fulton's real-life submarine ""Nautilus"" (1800). For the design of the ""Nautilus"" Verne was inspired by the French Navy submarine ""Plongeur"", a model of which he had seen at the 1867 Exposition Universelle, three years before writing his novel. ""Nautilus"" is described by Verne as ""a masterpiece containing masterpieces"". It is"
"the January Uprising; but Verne's editor Pierre-Jules Hetzel feared a book ban in the Russian market and offending a French ally, the Russian Empire, and had Verne obscure Nemo's motivation in the first book. In the second book of ""Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea"", Nemo comes close to revealing his Indian ancestry, though this is not obvious except in retrospect, where he saves a Ceylonese pearl-fisher in the Gulf of Mannar. ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"" was written between 1869 and 1870 and records the voyages of the ""Nautilus"" between 1866 and 1868. ""The Mysterious Island"" was written"
"Lorian Hemingway Lorian Hemingway (born December 15, 1951) is an American author and free-lance journalist. Her books include the memoir ""Walk on Water"", the novel ""Walking Into the River"", and the non-fiction book ""A World Turned Over"", about the devastation of her hometown of South Jackson, Mississippi, by the Candlestick Park Tornado in 1966. Her articles have appeared in ""GQ"", ""The New York Times Magazine"", ""Esquire"", ""The Seattle Times"", ""Seattle Post-Intelligencer"", and ""Rolling Stone"". In 1992, Hemingway was nominated for The Mississippi Arts and Letters Award for Fiction for her debut novel ""Walking Into the River"". In 1999 she received"
"1983, he published Around the World in Eight Days, a short novel about a Vietnam War veteran who wagers that he can circle the globe in eight days without the benefit of aircraft. Writing in American Book Review, Edmund Cardoni called the book ""wildly imaginative"" and noted that compared to Born on the Fourth of July, Around the World in Eight Days is ""more patently literary in the tribute it pays to the transformative power of narrative art."" From 1990 to 1991, Kovic took part in several anti-war demonstrations against the first Gulf War, which occurred not long after the"
"Atlantis in popular culture The mythical island of Atlantis has often been depicted in books, television shows, films and other creative works of popular culture. Before 1900 there was an overlap between verse epics dealing with the fall of Atlantis and novels with a pretension to fine writing which are now regarded as pioneering genre fiction. Jules Verne’s ""20,000 Leagues Under The Sea"" (1869/71) includes a visit to sunken Atlantis aboard Captain Nemo's submarine ""Nautilus"". In Elizabeth Birkmaier's ""Poseidon's Paradise: the Romance of Atlantis"" (San Francisco 1892), the island sinks following an earthquake. C. J. Cutcliffe Hyne also depicted the"
"first work Sampson Low & Co. chose ""Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Seas"" published in November, 1872, with the translator Rev. Lewis Page Mercier (1820–1875), B.A. Oxon., 1841, M.A. 1855. Born on 9 January 1820 (christened 7 February 1820, Old Church, Saint Pancras, London,) the only son of Francis Michael Jacob Mercier, Lewis Mercier came of French Huguenot stock; his grandfather was pastor of the French Protestant church in Threadneedle Street, London. He almost certainly spoke French at home as a child, and may have been one of the few native French speakers to translate Verne. The family was located"
"they edited before making a change. According to the new, full translation put out by the Naval Institute Press, nearly all errors can be attributed to the editors, with only a few being the fault of Jules Verne, who was otherwise meticulous. The inconsistency of the dates between ""Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea"" and ""The Mysterious Island"" is perhaps evidence in this argument, as it seems unlikely that Verne would make such an obvious gaffe. The ""Nautilus"" goes down in the Maelstrom on June 2, 1868, according to ""20,000 Leagues Under The Sea"", but may have survived. (""The Mysterious"
"Around the World in 80 Days (Alton Towers) Around the World in 80 Days was an attraction in the Talbot Street (now Cloud Cuckoo land) area of Alton Towers theme park, Staffordshire, England. The attraction opened in 1981, one year after the park first opened. It was the first dark ride at Alton Towers, one of the largest in the UK at the time, and was produced by Keith Sparks for the park's owner John Broome. It was a 4-minute boat ride which followed the adventures of Phileas Fogg and was loosely based on Jules Verne's novel Around the World"