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Volume 16 of 54 of Jules Verne's "Extraordinary Voyages", first printed in 1877."The Child Of The Cavern" is set beneath the earth in an underground coal mine in Scotland. A newly discovered vein of coal revitalizes this nearly abandoned subterranean village, but strange events... Read Full Overview

The Underground City, by Jules Verne, is a novel about the fortunes of a mining community at Aberfoyle which is near Stirling, Scotland. Miner James Starr, after receiving a letter from an old friend, leaves for the Aberfoyle mine. Although believed to be mined out a decade earlier,... Read Full Overview

"Las Indias negras" es una novela del escritor frances Julio, Verne, publicada en 1877. Novela que trata de leyendas escocesas, tambien sobre la mineria (en especial, sobre la explotacion de la hulla). Se trata de una mina abandonada, donde se encuentra un yacimiento de carbon... Read Full Overview

En esta novela se explota las leyendas escocesas, a la vez de adentrarse en la miner a, en especial a la explotaci n del carb n. La vieja mina escocesa Aberfoyle, que hab a sido cerrada diez a os atr s, es reactivada cuando el minero Simon Ford hace un descubrimiento asombroso... Read Full Overview

This is a novel about a mining community called Aberfoyle in Scotland. Mysterious things happen in and around the mine.

Les vieilles houill?res d'Aberfoyle, en ?cosse, sont bien mortes, mais d'?tranges ?v?nements continuent pourtant de s'y d?rouler... Un terrible myst?re semble dissimul? au fond de la mine ! Dans l'?paisse obscurit?, les galeries r?sonnent encore de coups de pic. Les souvenirs,... Read Full Overview

En una mina abandonada se encuentra un yacimiento de carb n que dar trabajo a cientos de familias durante muchos a os. Sin embargo, un duende parece rondar la pr spera mina.

Covering a time span of over ten years, this novel follows the fortunes of the mining community of Aberfoyle near Stirling, Scotland. Receiving a letter from an old colleague, mining engineer James Starr sets off for the old Aberfoyle mine, thought to have been mined out ten... Read Full Overview

The Underground City by Jules Verne; includes 45 illustrations by Jules-Descartes F rat. Also published as The Child of the Cavern; or Strange Doings Underground, Black Diamonds, Black Indies, Child of the Cavern, or Strange Doings Underground. The fortunes of the mining community... Read Full Overview

A novel about the fortunes of a mining community called Aberfoyle which is near Stirling, Scotland. Miner James Starr, after receiving a letter from an old friend, leaves for the Aberfoyle mine. Although believed to be mined out a decade earlier, James Starr finds a mine overman,... Read Full Overview

A novel about the fortunes of a mining community called Aberfoyle which is near Stirling, Scotland. Miner James Starr, after receiving a letter from an old friend, leaves for the Aberfoyle mine. Although believed to be mined out a decade earlier, James Starr finds a mine overman,... Read Full Overview

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R sum la requ te de Simon Ford, ancien contrema tre des houill res d'Aberfoyle, en cosse, dont les gisements sont cens s tre puis s depuis une dizaine d'ann es, l'ing nieur James Starr en reprend l'exploitation. L'intuition des deux hommes s'av re fond e, puisqu'un nouveau... Read Full Overview

The Underground City is a novel by Jules Verne that tells the story of two miners, James Starr and Simon Ford, who discover a hidden underground city while exploring the depths of the Scottish coal mines. The city, which is called New Aberfoyle, was once home to a community of... Read Full Overview