Hints and tips:
Related Special Reports
Related Topics
...Her objective was to beat Phileas Fogg, Jules Verne’s fictional character who travels around the world in 80 days....
...The Jules Verne of investment research (H/T Adam Tooze) has left Credit Suisse after it was devoured by UBS....
...He cites Verne, who predicted plausible future technologies like electric submarines and the Taser when he was writing in the mid-1800s....
...A picture in relief shows a hot-air balloon sinking into the sea, possibly a scene from Jules Verne’s Five Weeks in a Balloon, says the museum guide, while a curious chair made out of a camel’s saddle and...
...A principal is Huong Nguyen Thien Le, a childhood reader of Jules Verne who later fell in love with her own country’s journey to the centre of the Earth....
...In the spirit of Jules Verne, the FT crossword is setting forth on the task of traversing the countries of the world — or at least a lot of them — with the help of clues, solutions and a little ingenuity...
...It extends to the Navy helicopter hovering high overhead, surveying France and the Channel easily from that altitude, to the second world war gun emplacements, to the ultra-modern radars on the Verne hill...
...The historian Adam Tooze recently described Pozsar as the HG Wells or Jules Verne of what he called “financial fiction”, given his “conceptual depth” and “brilliant and intellectually fertile” writing on...
...The second concert would concentrate on classic Yes songs and his 1974 orchestral rock retelling of Jules Verne’s novel Journey to the Centre of the Earth....
...than Verne afforded his protagonists....
...This adaptation of Jules Verne’s 1873 novel by Ashley Pharoah (Ashes to Ashes, Life on Mars) stars David Tennant as Phileas Fogg, the British scientist who accepts a £20,000 wager to circumnavigate the globe...
...Though often described as the father of science fiction, Verne was not really a visionary....
...But equivalent sums of sunk investment spawned modern industry, the factual counterpoint to Verne’s imaginings....
...Jules Verne is one of the few restaurants in Paris where patrons still dress up for dinner. It is a visual and culinary feast — and well worth the visit....
...Other itineraries include an “Arabian Nights” journey through the desert in Morocco, an Oxfordshire trip based on Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and an Iceland adventure drawing on Jules Verne’s Journey...
...Inside an Icelandic volcano, Lorien Kite and his children don helmets and harnesses, inspired by the Jules Verne classic Journey to the Centre of the Earth....
...Its superior writing is no surprise from the team behind the wonderful 80 Days, a take on Jules Verne’s classic novel where you play resourceful valet Jean Passepartout, shepherding Phileas Fogg along a...
...Benjamin de Rothschild was more focused on the family’s sailing sponsorships than on the business, including a campaign under way now for Gitana team’s high-speed, hydrofoiling trimaran to win the Jules Verne...
...“That doesn’t mean that [people] are going to come and buy a piece of jewellery because of it,” says Stephen Webster, whose Jewels Verne fighting fish bracelet has been in the V&A since 2014....
...This sedate gameplay allows players to focus on the game’s compelling story, which references Jules Verne, H.P. Lovecraft and Guillermo del Toro....
...Two crewed French multihulls set off — again from western France in mid-coronavirus lockdown — in search of a record in the Jules Verne trophy....
...The restaurant is housed in a rusty, grey-green building, with the stylish interior inspired by Jules Verne’s Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea....
...Wikipedia lists seven Frankenstein games, 10 Jules Verne adaptations and 22 Draculas....
...We’d sit by the fire, browning the bread with a toasting fork, watching a Sunday serial adaptation, usually Dickens or Jules Verne – something “improving” on the BBC that we were allowed to watch....
...She also became a Star Trek fan, and devoured the works of Jules Verne, Marco Polo and Emilio Salgari, an Italian writer of swashbuckling novels such as Pirates of Bermuda and The Black Corsair....
International Edition