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Thomas Roch, a brilliant French inventor, has designed the Fulgurator, a weapon so powerful that "the state which acquired it would become absolute master of earth and ocean." However, unable to sell his unproven idea to France or any other government, Roch begins to lose his... Read Full Overview

Facing the Flag or For the Flag is an 1896 patriotic novel by Jules Verne. The book is part of the Voyages Extraordinaires series. It has the theme of France and the entire world threatened by a super-weapon with the threat finally overcome through the force of French patriotism... Read Full Overview

Facing the Flag or For the Flag is a patriotic novel by Jules Verne. Like The Begum's Millions which Verne published in 1879, it has the theme of France and the entire world threatened by a super-weapon (what would now be called a weapon of mass destruction) with the threat finally... Read Full Overview

Facing the Flag or For the Flag is a patriotic novel by Jules Verne. Like The Begum's Millions which Verne published in 1879, it has the theme of France and the entire world threatened by a super-weapon (what would now be called a weapon of mass destruction) with the threat finally... Read Full Overview

Facing the Flag or For the Flag is a patriotic novel by Jules Verne. Like The Begum's Millions which Verne published in 1879, it has the theme of France and the entire world threatened by a super-weapon (what would now be called a weapon of mass destruction) with the threat finally... Read Full Overview

COUNT D'ARTIGAS.Below this name, in a corner of the card, the following address was written in lead pencil: "On board the schooner Ebba, anchored off New-Berne, Pamlico Sound."The capital of North Carolina-one of the forty-four states of the Union at this epoch-is the rather... Read Full Overview

COUNT D'ARTIGAS.Below this name, in a corner of the card, the following address was written in lead pencil: "On board the schooner Ebba, anchored off New-Berne, Pamlico Sound."The capital of North Carolina-one of the forty-four states of the Union at this epoch-is the rather... Read Full Overview

Facing the Flag or For the Flag (French: Face au drapeau) is an 1896 patriotic novel by Jules Verne. The book is part of the Voyages extraordinaires series.

Facing the Flag or For the Flag is a patriotic novel by Jules Verne. Like The Begum's Millions which Verne published in 1879, it has the theme of France and the entire world threatened by a super-weapon (what would now be called a weapon of mass destruction) with the threat finally... Read Full Overview

Facing the Flag or For the Flag (French: Face au drapeau) is an 1896 patriotic novel by Jules Verne. The book is part of the Voyages extraordinaires series.

Facing the Flag or For the Flag (French: Face au drapeau) is an 1896 patriotic novel by Jules Verne. The book is part of the Voyages extraordinaires series.

En r alit , ce pr tendu Gaydon tait un ing nieur fran ais nomm Simon Hart, depuis plusieurs ann es au service d'une soci t de produits chimiques, tablie dans le New-Jersey. Simon Hart, g de quarante ans, avait le front large, marqu du pli de l'observateur, l'attitude r... Read Full Overview

Facing the Flag or For the Flag is a patriotic novel by Jules Verne. Like The Begum's Millions which Verne published in 1879, it has the theme of France and the entire world threatened by a super-weapon (what would now be called a weapon of mass destruction) with the threat finally... Read Full Overview

Facing the Flag or For the Flag is a patriotic novel by Jules Verne. Like The Begum's Millions which Verne published in 1879, it has the theme of France and the entire world threatened by a super-weapon (what would now be called a weapon of mass destruction) with the threat finally... Read Full Overview

The capital of North Carolina-one of the forty-four states of the Union at this epoch-is the rather important town of Raleigh, which is about one hundred and fifty miles in the interior of the prov-ince. It is owing to its central position that this city has become the seat of... Read Full Overview

JULES VERNE (1828-1905). Romancier fran ais, n Nantes (sur l' le Feydeau, entre les deux bras de la Loire) qui atteignit une extraordinaire popularit avec une longue s rie d oeuvres combinant aventure et science-fiction, parmi lesquelles on peut citer les incontournables... Read Full Overview

Facing the Flag or For the Flag is a patriotic novel by Jules Verne. Like The Begum's Millions which Verne published in 1879, it has the theme of France and the entire world threatened by a super-weapon (what would now be called a weapon of mass destruction) with the threat finally... Read Full Overview