The Underground City (French Edition) [Paperback]

Jules Verne (Author), Sarah Crozier (Translator), Ian Thompson (Foreword)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 1, 2005

TEN minutes afterwards, James Starr and Harry issued from the principal gallery. They were now standing in a glade, if we may use this word to designate a vast and dark excavation. The place, however, was not entirely deprived of daylight. A few rays straggled in through the opening of a deserted shaft. It was by means of this pipe that ventilation was established in the Dochart pit.

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About the Author

Jules Verne (1828-1905) used a combination of scientific facts and his imagination to take readers on extraordinary imaginative journeys to fantastic places. In such books as " Around the World in Eighty Days, From the Earth to the Moon, " and " Journey to the Center of the Earth, " he predicted many technological advances of the twentieth century, including the invention of the automobile, telephone, and nuclear submarines, as well as atomic power and travel to the moon by rocket.

Ian Thompson is senior lecturer in Mathematics Education at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Observations of his own young children struggling to make sense of number operations and calculations provided the stimulus for his research into children's idiosyncratic mental and written calculation strategies which he began in 1986. He has written a substantial number of articles on this topic for academic and professional journals, and recently edited the book Teaching and Learning Early Number (1997). He was a member of the Advisory Group for the National Numeracy Project and was also a member of the team responsible for the training of the project's Numeracy Consultants.

Product Details

• Paperback: 214 pages
• Publisher: Luath Press Limited; Tra edition (October 1, 2005)
• Language: French
• ISBN-10: 184282080X
• ISBN-13: 978-1842820803
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.5 ounces
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #587,794 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)