Robur the Conqueror
Автор:
Jules VerneЖанр:
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2026-10-16Язык книги:
EnglishКол-во страниц:
54
Description
Robur the Conqueror, also published as The Clipper of the Clouds, opens in Philadelphia at a meeting of the Weldon Institute, a club of balloon enthusiasts. A stranger named Robur asks to address the members, then tells them that the future belongs to heavier-than-air machines. He mocks the club’s giant balloon, the Go-Ahead, and insults its members until the meeting erupts in chaos. That night he kidnaps Uncle Prudent, the club’s president, Phil Evans, its secretary, and Frycollin, Prudent’s servant. He takes them captive aboard the Albatross, the flying machine he built, and flies them around the world to...
