Product Description: Even for those who have never read Jules Verne (1828–1905), the author's very name conjures visions of the submarine in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea, the epic race in Around the World in Eighty Days, the spacecraft in From the Earth to the Moon, and the daring descent in Journey to the Center of the Earth...read more

Product Description: A fantastic adventure across the United States awaits in the only exact replica edition of Jules Verne's rarest book — used copies costing thousands of dollars. This edition is a replica of the original magazine print edition, looking as it looked in the magazine, including all the wonderful original illustrations by Georges Roux (over 60 of them)...read more

Product Description: The great movie serials of yesteryear are covered in 20 informative essays culled from the pages of BLOOD 'N' THUNDER, the premier journal of adventure, mystery and melodrama in American popular culture of the early 20th century. There are no gushy fanboy puff-pieces in this book; each essay is undergirded with solid research and, in many cases, interviews with the actors, writers and directors involved...read more

Product Description: Talbot Mundy was one of the most popular writers of adventure fiction in America during the first half of the 20th century. His stories and novels brought to life the customs and lifestyles of India, Tibet, and the Middle East more vividly than any other writer...read more

'This book covers Wodehouse's Hollywood career from his early efforts in silent film, to his contributions in television, to posthumous adaptations for the screen'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: During his twilight years, the French author Jules Verne (1828-1905) wrote two original sequels to books that had fired his own youthful imagination but which he felt to be incomplete: Johann Wyss's Swiss Family Robinson and Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket...read more

'This biography chronicles both the actual travels and the philosophical meanderings of Talbot Mundy. He was one of the first Western writers to show an appreciation of Eastern culture, and his writing became an outlet for his radical ideas on religion and philosophy'--Provided by publisher.

Product Description: During his twilight years, the French author Jules Verne (1828-1905) wrote two original sequels to books that had fired his own youthful imagination but which he felt to be incomplete: Johann Wyss's Swiss Family Robinson and Edgar Allan Poe's The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket...read more

Product Description: This is a reference work on the novelist Jules Verne, one of the most important literary figures of all time. An in-depth listing of all English language versions of his novels is included.

Product Description: Here for the first time is a book that defines the historical adventure movie, one of the most enduring, ever-popular, and mythically significant American film genres. Despite the popularity of historical adventure from the early days of filmmaking, never before has this Hollywood genre been analyzed in a comprehensive manner...read more