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This article has been tagged since September 2006. Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (original title in French: La Jangada - 800 lieues sur l'Amazone) is a novel by Jules Verne, published in 1881. Jules Verne. ...
Adventure novels have adventure as a main theme. ...
Jules Verne. ...
Unlike many of his other novels, this story does not have any science fiction elements. It is an adventure novel. Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ...
Adventure novels have adventure as a main theme. ...
This novel involves how Joam Garral, a ranch owner who lives near the Peruvian-Brazilian border on the Amazon River, is forced to travel down-stream when his past catches up with him. Most of the novel is situated on a large jangada (a brazilian timber raft) that is used by Garral and his family to float to Belém at the river's mouth. Many aspects of the raft, scenery, and journey are described in detail. A Ranch is an area of land, including buildings and structures, given primarily to the grazing of livestock on rangeland. ...
A satellite image of the mouth of the Amazon River, looking south The Amazon River or River Amazon (Spanish: ; Portuguese: ) of South America is the most voluminous river on earth, having a greater total flow than the next six largest rivers combined. ...
Timber rafting is arguably the second cheapest method of transportation of timber, next after log driving. ...
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Plot summary Spoiler warning: Plot and/or ending details follow. Joam Garral grants his daughter's wish to travel to Belém where she wants to marry Manuel Valdez in the presence of Manuel's invalid mother. The Garrals travel down the Amazon River using a giant timber raft. At Belém, Joam plans to restore his good name, as he is still wanted in Brazil for a crime he did not perpetrate. A scoundrel named Torres offers Joam absolute proof of Joam's innocence but the price that Torres wants for this information is to marry Joam's daughter, which is inconceivable to Joam. The proof lies in an encrypted letter that will exonerate Garral. When Torres is killed, the Garral family must race to decode the letter before Joam is executed. Spoilers end here.
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