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Excerpt from Around the World in Eighty Days
Thousand Leagues under the Sea the ideas and subjects of his remarkable works, which have been translated into many languages, and have found readers in two worlds.
Verne passes half of his existence on board the St. Michael; dividing the remainder of his time between Amiens, where his family resides, and Paris, where he attends the sessions of the Geographical Society, of which he is the most honoured member, and where he collects, in its museums and library, the numerous materials necessary to the scientific perfection of his works.
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