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100 1 _aVerne, Jules,
_d1828-1905
245 1 2 _aA Floating City, and The Blockade Runners
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2022
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
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_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aWikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blockade_Runners
500 _aTranslation of: Une ville flottante, and Les forceurs de blocus.
500 _aWikipedia page on this work: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Floating_City
500 _aRelease date is 2022-04-14
508 _aRichard Hulse, Guus Snijders and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
520 _a"A Floating City and The Blockade Runners" by Jules Verne is a novel written in the mid-19th century. This work explores the journeys and adventures during a sea voyage aboard the "Great Eastern," a colossal steamship designed to carry passengers across the Atlantic. The narrative follows a variety of characters, including travelers, engineers, and sailors, delving into their hopes and interactions as they navigate their way to America. The opening of "A Floating City" sets the stage for the story, beginning with the narrator's arrival in Liverpool in March 1867, preparing for a voyage on the "Great Eastern." The narrator describes the ship as an engineering marvel, likening it to a floating city, and depicts the chaotic and bustling atmosphere on board as preparations for the journey unfold. As passengers, including the narrator's friend Fabian, embark on this remarkable vessel, the text teases early character dynamics and foreshadows underlying tensions, particularly regarding drastic changes that may emerge within the group. This initial segment establishes not only the ship's significant historical context but also hints at personal stories of ambition and heartbreak intertwined with the broader adventure of crossing the Atlantic. (This is an automatically generated summary.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cUnited States: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1904
653 _aGreat Eastern (Steamship) -- Fiction
653 _aUnited States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Blockades -- Fiction
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/floatingcitybloc00verniala
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67829
999 _c108651
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