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    Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
    Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
    Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon
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    Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon

    Written by Jules Verne

    Narrated by LibriVox Community

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    First published in 1881, Eight Hundred Miles on the Amazon is an adventure novel by Jules Verne, having elements of codes and cryptography. Unlike many of his other stories, it is not a work of science fiction. Rather, it describes a voyage down the Amazon River on a large raft, or jangada). Many aspects of the raft, scenery, and journey are described in detail. - Summary by not.a.moose, adapted from Wikipedia.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLibriVox
    Release dateAug 25, 2014
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    Jules Verne

    Jules Verne (1828-1905) used a combination of scientific facts and his imagination to take readers on extraordinary imaginative journeys to fantastic places. In such books as Around the World in Eighty Days, From the Earth to the Moon, and Journey to the Center of the Earth, he predicted many technological advances of the twentieth century, including the invention of the automobile, telephone, and nuclear submarines, as well as atomic power and travel to the moon by rocket.

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