Around the World in 80 Days is a 2004 designer board game by Michael Rieneck, derived from which classic adventure novel, by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873?
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Around the World in 80 Days (game) Around the World in 80 Days is a 2004 designer board game by Michael Rieneck. The theme is derived from the classic novel.
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Around the World in Eighty Days Around the World in Eighty Days (French: "Le tour du monde en quatre-vingts jours" ) is a classic adventure novel by the French writer Jules Verne, published in 1873. In the story, Phileas Fogg of London and his newly employed French valet Passepartout attempt to circumnavigate the world in 80 days on a £20,000 wager (the approximate equivalent of £2 million in 2016) set by his friends at the Reform Club. It is one of Verne's most acclaimed works .
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Life of Pi Life of Pi is a Canadian fantasy adventure novel by Yann Martel published in 2001. The protagonist is Piscine Molitor "Pi" Patel, an Indian boy from Pondicherry who explores issues of spirituality and practicality from an early age. He survives 227 days after a shipwreck while stranded on a lifeboat in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
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Tiger Adventure Tiger Adventure is a 1979 children's book by the Canadian-born American author Willard Price. In his "Adventure" series featuring characters Hal and Roger Hunt. It depicts an expedition to India to capture animals, including tigers, for a zoo. They encounter an annoying city boy, named Vic Stone, who is a constant pain to their travels. He blames everything on Hal and Roger, even when it is his fault.
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Mysterious Island (serial) Mysterious Island is the 46th serial released by Columbia Pictures. It is an adaptation of the 1874 novel by Jules Verne, "The Mysterious Island" ("L'Île mystérieuse"). As in the original story, which was a follow-up to "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", this serial is set in 1865. However, the serial has alien Mercurians as an additional set of villains and it has been labelled as a space opera version of the Verne novel.
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Journey Through the Impossible Journey Through the Impossible (French: Voyage à travers l'impossible ) is an 1882 fantasy play written by Jules Verne, with the collaboration of Adolphe d'Ennery. A stage spectacular in the "féerie" tradition, the play follows the adventures of a young man who, with the help of a magic potion and a varied assortment of friends and advisers, makes impossible voyages to the center of the earth, the bottom of the sea, and a distant planet. The play is deeply influenced by Verne's own "Voyages Extraordinaires" series and includes characters and themes from some of his most famous novels, including "Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea", "Journey to the Center of the Earth", and "From the Earth to the Moon".
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Jules de Gaultier Jules de Gaultier (born in 1858 in Paris, died in 1942 in Boulogne-sur-Mer), born Jules Achille de Gaultier de Laguionie, was a French philosopher and essayist. He was a contributor to "Mercure de France" and one of the chief advocates of "nietzscheism" in vogue in the literary circles of the day. He was known especially for his theory of "bovarysme" (the name taken from Flaubert's novel), by which he meant the continual need of humans to invent themselves, to lie to themselves. His books include "De Kant à Nietzsche" (1900) and "Le Bovarysme, essai sur le pouvoir d'imaginer" (1902).
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Tunnels &amp; Trolls Tunnels & Trolls (abbreviated "T&T") is a fantasy role-playing game designed by Ken St. Andre and first published in 1975 by Flying Buffalo. The second modern role-playing game published, it was written by Ken St. Andre to be a more accessible alternative to "Dungeons & Dragons" and is suitable for solitaire, group, and play-by-mail gameplay.
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George Roux George Roux (1853–1929) was a French artist and book illustrator. His best-known works today are a large number of illustrations he created for the science-fiction novels of Jules Verne, in the series "Les voyages extraordinaires". He was the second-most prolific illustrator of Verne's novels, after Léon Benett, drawing the illustrations for 22 novels in the original editions of Verne's works with the publisher Pierre-Jules Hetzel. The first of them was "L’Épave du Cynthia" ("The Salvage of the Cynthia", 1885) and the last was "L'Étonnante aventure de la mission Barsac" ("The Barsac Mission", 1919).
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Paul de Vivie Paul de Vivie, who wrote as Vélocio (April 29, 1853– February 27, 1930), was publisher of "Le Cycliste", an early champion of derailleur gears, and father of French bicycle touring and randonneuring.
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Alexandre Dumas Alexandre Dumas ( ; ] ; born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie ] ; 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas, "père" ("father"), was a French writer. His works have been translated into nearly 100 languages, and he is one of the most widely read French authors. Many of his historical novels of high adventure were originally published as serials, including "The Count of Monte Cristo", "The Three Musketeers", "Twenty Years After", and "". His novels have been adapted since the early twentieth century for nearly 200 films. Dumas' last novel, "The Knight of Sainte-Hermine," unfinished at his death, was completed by a scholar Claude Schopp who was the leading authority on Dumas and published in 2005, becoming a best seller. It was published in English in 2008 as "The Last Cavalier."
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Toilers of the Sea Toilers of the Sea (French: "Les Travailleurs de la mer" ) is a novel by Victor Hugo published in 1866. The book is dedicated to the island of Guernsey, where Hugo spent 15 years in exile. Hugo uses the setting of a small island community to transmute seemingly mundane events into drama of the highest calibre. "Les Travailleurs de la Mer" is set just after the Napoleonic Wars and deals with the impact of the Industrial Revolution upon the island.
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Les Chouans Les Chouans (] , "The Chouans") is an 1829 novel by French novelist and playwright Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) and included in the "Scènes de la vie militaire" section of his novel sequence "La Comédie humaine". Set in the French region of Brittany, the novel combines military history with a love story between the aristocratic Marie de Verneuil and the Chouan royalist Alphonse de Montauran. It takes place during the 1799 post-war uprising in Fougères.
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Moi, Antoine de Tounens, roi de Patagonie Moi, Antoine de Tounens, roi de Patagonie is a 1981 novel by the French writer Jean Raspail. It tells the story of the French adventurer Orélie-Antoine de Tounens, who in 1860 declared the independence of the Kingdom of Araucanía and Patagonia, located in South America, where he held the title of king for the next 18 years. The sovereignty of the country was not respected by Chile and Argentina, whose authorities regarded Tounens as insane. The title of the book means "I, Antoine de Tounens, King of Patagonia".
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The Ultimate Solution The Ultimate Solution is a 1973 alternate history novel by journalist and former "Playboy" interviewer Eric Norden, set in a world where the Axis forces won World War II and partitioned the world between them, and is noted for its particularly grim tone. Norden later wrote the 1977 Adolf Hitler-related science fiction novella "The Primal Solution".
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The Isle of Dread The Isle of Dread is an adventure for the "Dungeons & Dragons" role-playing game. The adventure, module code "X1", was originally published in 1981. Written by David "Zeb" Cook and Tom Moldvay, it is among the most widely circulated of all "Dungeons & Dragons" adventures due to its inclusion as part of the "D&D Expert Set". In the adventure, the player characters search for a lost treasure, journey to the prehistoric Isle of Dread, and there meet new nonhuman races.
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Clovis Dardentor Clovis Dardentor is an 1896 fiction novel by French writer Jules Verne, written partly as a travel narrative. Compared to other Verne novels, it is a relatively unknown work.
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Evgeny Salias De Tournemire Count Evgeny Andreyevich Salias de Tournemire (Russian: Евгений Андреевич Салиас-де-Турнемир , 25 April 1840 – 18 December 1908) was a Russian writer, best known for his adventure novels based upon various episodes of Russian history of the 18th and early 19th centuries.
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Journey to the Center of the Earth (2008 TV film) Journey to the Center of the Earth is a 2008 American-Canadian made-for-television action adventure film shot on location in and around Vancouver in the summer of 2007. It is very loosely based on the novel of the same name by Jules Verne.
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Around the World with Willy Fog Around the World with Willy Fog (Spanish: "La vuelta al mundo de Willy Fog" , Japanese: アニメ80日間世界一周 ) is a Spanish-Japanese animated adaptation of "Around the World in Eighty Days" by Jules Verne produced by Spanish studio BRB Internacional and Televisión Española, with animation by Japanese studio Nippon Animation, that was first broadcast on Antenne 2 of France Public TV in 1983 And TVE1 of Spanish Public TV in 1984.
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The Red Gods The Red Gods (French: "Les dieux rouges") is an adventure novel with elements of fantasy, written by French writer Jean d'Esme, published in 1924.
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Le Gaulois Le Gaulois (] ) was a French daily newspaper, founded in 1868 by Edmond Tarbé and Henri de Pène. After a printing stoppage, it was revived by Arthur Meyer in 1882 with notable collaborators Paul Bourget, Alfred Grévin, Abel Hermant, and Ernest Daudet. Among its many famous contributing editors was Guy de Maupassant. Gaston Leroux's novel "The Phantom of the Opera" was first published as a serialization in its pages between September 1909 and January 1910.