The Purchase of the North Pole |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 7 |
THE NORTH POLAR PRACTICAL | 13 |
TO SYNDICATE OR NOT TO SYNDICATE? | 25 |
Copyright | |
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The Purchase of the North Pole Topsy Turvy (EasyRead Large Bold Edition) Jules Verne Limited preview - 1956 |
Common terms and phrases
Alcide Pierdeux algebra American Arctic regions asked auction Baldenak Bali-Bali Ballistic Cottage Baltimore Barbi Barbicane & Co Barbicane and Captain Barbicane and Nicholl Barbicane's Bilsby blackboard calculations Captain Nicholl cents CHAPTER circumpolar coal coal-fields codfish colleagues Columbiad dear Maston displacement diurnal dollars Donellan Earth Earth's axis effect eighty-fourth parallel enterprise Equator Evangelina Scorbitt exclaimed explosion feet fired Forster friends gentlemen geographical Gilmour globe going Government Greenland Gun Club gutta-percha hammer Impey Barbicane inhabitants Island J. T. Maston Jansen Karkof Kilimanjaro latitude Major mathematician meli-melonite meridian Michel Ardan million monster cannon mystery never newspaper North Polar Practical orbit Polar Practical Association Pole President Prestice projectile recoil replied rotation Round the Moon Samoyeds Scorbitt secret secretary segment shock Spencer Island square mile Sulphuric Alcide Sultan syndicate territories thousand three noughts Todrin Tom Hunter tons Verne Wamasai Zanzibar
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"Solitary on a continent": Raumentwürfe in der spätviktorianischen Science ... Oliver Lindner No preview available - 2005 |