Faire le tour du globe en 1920 heures, ou 15200 minutes, c’est le pari fou que le gentleman anglais Phileas Fogg relève en 1872 contre les membres du Reform Club de Londres! Il entraîne Passepartout, son valet, dans une course effrénée. Il est poursuivi, de steamboat en railroad, par les polices anglaises qui voient en lui le cambrioleur qui vient de dévaliser la banque d'Angleterre! Une grande aventure où l’on croise une belle Indienne à sauver du bûcher, où les ponts s’effondrent, les navires flambent... et où un gentleman dépense et se dépense pour atteindre son but à l’heure exacte! Contient un dossier spécial présentant Jules Verne, sa vie et son œuvre dans le contexte historique, artistique, littéraire, économique et social de son époque.
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José Luis de la Fuente, known under the name of Chiqui, is the younger brother of Victor de la Fuente. His style is recognizable for its resemblances to the typical "belgian school". After having lived in Argentina for a while, Chiqui returned to Spain in 1958, where he began his career in comics. His earliest work appeared in Balalín ('Titín') and Dolár ('El Ranger Solitaro'). He contributed to the international agency Selecciones Ilustradas, but soon established himself as a talented illustrator of humor comics. In the following years, he worked for numerous periodicals, mainly Chío and Trinca. His most famous creations are the series 'Hector' and 'Oliver', which he both started in the early 1970s. From 1974 to 1992 he also adapted numerous literary classics in the Colección Maravillas de la Literatura. For the German Kauka Verlag, he illustrated the series 'Die Vier Freunde' in 1972. Chiqui de la Fuente passed away in Madrid in 1992.
Novels of French writer Jules Gabriel Verne, considered the founder of modern science fiction, include Journey to the Center of the Earth (1864) and Around the World in Eighty Days (1873). This author who pioneered the genre. People best know him for Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1870). Verne wrote about space, air, and underwater travel before people invented navigable aircraft and practical submarines and devised any means of spacecraft. He ranks behind Dame Agatha Mary Clarissa Christie as the second most translated author of all time. People made his prominent films. People often refer to Verne alongside Herbert George Wells as the "father of science fiction." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jules\_V...
