Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
By Victor Hugo
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South American rancher Joam Garral is wanted in Brazil for a crime he did not commit. The sinister Torres can prove him innocent—but Torres’s price is to marry Joam’s beautiful daughter, already promised to another. Verne’s exotic 1881 adventure takes Joam’s family by raft through danger, treachery, and vivid flora and fauna.
Victor Hugo
Victor Marie Hugo (1802–1885) was a French poet, novelist, and dramatist of the Romantic movement and is considered one of the greatest French writers. Hugo’s best-known works are the novels Les Misérables, 1862, and The Hunchbak of Notre-Dame, 1831, both of which have had several adaptations for stage and screen.
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Reviews for Eight Hundred Leagues on the Amazon (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)
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- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5This was a fairly detailed and exploratory romp through the Amazon in the typical adventurist fashion that Verne writes in. Although I liked the novel, the section part seemed a bit of a let-down compared to the first and I felt a tiny bit disappointed in it. I do not believe, even though it's good, that this is among the strongest of Verne's works.3 stars.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The story starts slowly and includes a lot of information about the wildlife and habitat of the Amazon River. The story becomes much more interesting later and ties together the information from the earlier chapters. I became interested in the outcome and solution to the problem of the key figure of the story, Joam Dacosta. I was pleasantly surprised that the book improved.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5This is one of the better of the less well known Verne novels. The author still has a tendency to "braindump" all of the information he has assimilated about the Amazon basin and its flora and fauna, and the lives of the local population, and thereby go into excessive and somewhat distracting detail. But from the half way point, the plot took off and became quite a gripping story of an innocent man's fight to clear his name from an unjust condemnation for murder a quarter of a century earlier.
- Rating: 2 out of 5 stars2/5This was a cool book, although despite Jules Verne being the author, it isn’t a whit science fiction. However, there is a nifty cryptogram (if you listen to the audiobook, they read the whole cryptogram letter by letter and it's rather long—so you might want to skip through that part, unless you have an excellent memory and attention span).The book isn't about the Amazon at all, either (although they are on it throughout a fair portion of the book, and they do encounter some animals here and there). It's more of a murder mystery—but it's a cool book nonetheless. I'm surprised it's not more popular.