Tantor Unabridged Classics: 800 Leagues on the Amazon (Audiobook)

from GlennBell

The 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...

from john257hopper

This 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 det...

from john257hopper

This 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 det...

from nules

This 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 ...

from

This 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 go...