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A spacebound adventure about a stranded group on a comet, designed for younger readers with discussions and questions.

Jules Verne's fantastic tale of a small group stranded in space on a comet Classics Illustrated tells this wonderful tale in colorful comic strip... Read Full Overview

Brace yourself for an out-of-this-world adventure in this Jules Verne classic following a small group of survivors set adrift in space by a comet--now with an arresting new look

When the comet Gallia impacts Earth, the results are catastrophic... but only for a given few. After the glancing blow, Earth continues in its stately course, but a few chunks of the planet's outer shell are taken up by the comet, along with several dozen people. Thus begins... Read Full Overview

Off on a Comet (French: Hector Servadac) is an 1877 science fiction novel by Jules Verne. The story starts with a comet called Gallia, that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. The disaster occurred on January 1 of the year 188x in the area around... Read Full Overview

Brace yourself for an out-of-this-world adventure in this Jules Verne classic following a small group of survivors set adrift in space by a comet--now with an arresting new look

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 in the vicinity of Gibraltar sends a piece of the Earth on a two-year trip around the solar system. Thirty-six unsuspecting... Read Full Overview

The story starts with a comet called Gallia, that touches the Earth in its flight and collects a few small chunks of it. The disaster occurred on January 1 of the year 188x in the area around Gibraltar. On the territory that was carried away by the comet there remained a total... Read Full Overview

When a comet strikes, it breaks off a section of the Earth, sending it spinning into outer space - along with a group of survivors who were not left behind Can they survive the harsh conditions of their new, reduced world, and if not, how can they get home?

When the comet Gallia impacts Earth, the results are catastrophic... but only for a given few. After the glancing blow, Earth continues in its stately course, but a few chunks of the planet's outer shell are taken up by the comet, along with several dozen people. Thus begins... Read Full Overview

En la costa de Algiers, el capit n franc s H ctor Servadac, su ordenanza Ben-Zuf y el suelo bajo sus pies son barridos de la faz de la Tierra tr s el paso de un cometa. El mundo a su alrededor r pidamente cambia y cuando la pareja comienza a explorar, descubren que junto con... Read Full Overview

Jules Verne: Reise durch die Sonnenwelt. Beide Teile in einem Buch Lesefreundlicher Gro?druck in 16-pt-Schrift Edition Holzinger. Gro?format, 216 x 279 mm Berliner Ausgabe, 2015 Vollst?ndiger, durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger HECTOR SERVADAC... Read Full Overview

Jules Verne: Reise durch die Sonnenwelt. "Beide Teile in einem Buch" Edition Holzinger. Taschenbuch Berliner Ausgabe, 2015 Vollstandiger, durchgesehener Neusatz bearbeitet und eingerichtet von Michael Holzinger HECTOR SERVADAC. Voyages et aventures a travers le monde solaire... Read Full Overview

Hector Servadac est un roman d'aventures de Jules Verne, paru en 1877. Il s'agit d'un roman tout fait fantaisiste o l'auteur extrapole partir d'une hypoth se la rencontre de la Terre avec une com te, les cons quences la fois les plus inattendues et les plus rigoureusement... Read Full Overview

L'oeuvre para t d'abord dans le Magasin d' ducation et de r cr ation du 1er janvier au 15 d cembre 1877, avant d' tre publi en volume la m me ann e par l' diteur Hetzel dans la collection des Voyages extraordinaires.L' diteur de Verne, Pierre-Jules Hetzel, devait tre conscient... Read Full Overview

- La bibliographie de l'auteur- Ses principales oeuvres- Emport sur une com te qui a arrach la Terre une partie des c tes de la m diterran e, un groupe d'europ ens fait le tour du syst me solaire. Le fran ais Hector Servadac prend la t te de cette petite colonie qui comporte,... Read Full Overview

Jules Verne: Reise durch die Sonnenwelt. Band eins und zwei HECTOR SERVADAC. Voyages et aventures travers le monde solaire (entstanden 1874-1876). Frz. Vorabdruck: Magasin d'Education et de R cr ation 1.1.-15.12.1877. Frz. Buch-Erstausgabe: J. Hetzel, Paris 1877. Dt. Vorabdruck:... Read Full Overview